# Abra Lee
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abra lee (born 18 December 1978) is an American public horticulturalist, historian and writer, who researches Black garden history and raises awareness of the subject through social media.
== Career ==
Lee graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture. She has worked in a number of horticultural roles, including: with the University of Georgia as a County Extension Agent for Fulton County; as Landscape Manager for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; as a horticulturalist at George Bush Intercontinental Airport; as a municipal arborist at City of Atlanta Department of Parks.As of 2021, Lee worked as a freelance horticultural writer and lecturer, for institutions such as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Centre, Temple University, Smithsonian Gardens, and others.
Making the Rounds: A New Year's Conversation with the CP Host Team, Jennifer, Abra & Ben
In honor of the new year, fresh-faced and open-hearted in front of us, Abra Lee, Ben Futa, and Jennifer Jewell are together this week for a first-ever CP Host check-in. We’re chatting about what we’re looking back on, what we’re looking forward to, and what we’re looking to grow in 2026! Join us!
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Mid-Winter Pick-Me-Up w/ The Orchid Rescuer, Terry Richardson
This week, Cultivating Place welcomes Terry Richardson in conversation with Abra Lee. Terry is known to many as The Black Thumb: Orchid Care Made Simple, an intrepid, enthusiastic, and encouraging orchid rescuer, educator, and storyteller.
Terry has helped thousands of people rethink what it means…
Blooming Beyond Barriers, the flourishing legacy of South Carolina Floriculturist
This week on Cultivating Place, Abra Lee is in conversation with Laverne Brockington and Vance Davis, great nieces of Annie Mae Vann Reid, an historic florist and entrepreneur based in Darlington, South Carolina. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Annie Mae tended a thriving floral business that grew out…
Between Soil and Self - A conversation with John Sonnier
This week, Cultivating Place host Abra Lee explores diplomacy and gardens. She’s in conversation with John Sonnier, Head Gardener at the British Ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. There since 2009, John focuses on organic and sustainable methods of care AND he has created one of the United …
Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler
This week on Cultivating Place, public gardens as living classrooms, the quiet power of trees in city life, and how tending landscapes can cultivate resilience, curiosity, and belonging.
Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler, horticulturist, landscape architect, educator, …
Following What Flourishes, with Amanda Hannah
Amanda Hannah is the Director of Botanical Garden Horticulture at Holden Forests & Gardens in Cleveland, Ohio.
Amanda’s path into horticulture has taken her from the agricultural landscapes of Idaho and Utah to studying in Argentina, living in Seattle, and moving through the Longwood Fellows Progr…
Rooted in Relationships, Plantsman Allen Bush
Allen Bush is an esteemed plantsman and lifelong advocate for the joy of gardening. He joins Cultivating Place Host Abra Lee in conversation this week to share more. From his work with Jelitto Perennial Seeds to his decades sharing rich garden stories as a Garden Rant writer, Allen’s life and work …
We're all history in the making, life lessons from garden history
All history reminds us that we are all history in the making! Garden history reminds us that we as gardeners, our gardens, our gardening, and how our culture tends to and stewards land are all that, too!
What is the historical context of gardens in this moment-especially given some of the change…
The Art of Black Southern Agrarian Magic, Whitney Jaye
Whitney Jaye is a florist, flower farmer, and the creative force behind Sunbird Flowers, based in Decatur, Georgia, and providing sustainably grown, beautifully curated flowers for the Atlanta area.
Seeing her work through the lens of Black Southern folkways that (re)center agrarianism, and throu…
Episode 785: “Cultivating Place’s” Jennifer Jewell on the Power of Gardeners
https://youtu.be/Gq3hs8tc8Wo?si=64jB7EX2_EMdo-a8
Jennifer Jewell’s long-running public radio show "Cultivating Place" asks: “Is cultivating place well the ability to feed your family better? Is it the ability to have a say in how our climate and our environment is cared for, starting right in o…
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