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This week before July is upon us and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so pleased to...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 59:00
garlic mustard
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 01:36
sunflower
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 07:25
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 07:29
This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, state, and local conservation efforts collectivel...
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- Added: Jan 04, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:21
Turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) are wonderful and lots of folks agree. The little town of Bisbee in the Mule Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:29
San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 05:08
I pursued the Mexican stoneroller ( Campostoma ornatum) for a few minutes trying to get a photo or two before deciding to quit harassing the fish i...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:19
I forgot to say that false solomon’s seal was formerly in the family Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are 2 subspecies of Maianthemum r...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 04:09
There are 30 species of Dalea found in Arizona, many of which are in the nursery trade because they are so doggone pretty. How cool is that? Very.
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- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 04:20
The genus Artemisia is in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. Well, t...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 05:05
We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:59
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:35
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:18
Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re in conversation with a new generation seed farmer, Petra Page-Mann. Petra is a co-founder with her ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founde...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:06
The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:13
The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:52
Wandering through a woodland.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:16
I concentrated on a few fall bloomers in the Aster family that have yellow flowers and I bet you thought of other species that should have been inc...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:31
There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting!
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:23
Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California, A mother of five,...
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 59:00