Summary: Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center as well as one of the country’s leading research and trial gardens for native plant species as well as their old and new cultivars. Open to the public since 2013, Mt. Cuba is dedicated to us all growing at a higher level. With the fall planning and planting season now firmly in sight, Sam joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about the data (including ecological benefits, optimal growing conditions, performance results, and overall beauty) he and the team at Mt. Cuba are aggregating for us as home gardeners about how native plant species and their selections available on the market really DO In our gardens. It’s valuable data for us all. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.
