Sam Hoadley

Sam Hoadley traces his lifelong passion for gardening and the natural world to a childhood spent in the woods and in his home garden with his mother in East Granby, Connecticut. That passion was further cultivated at the University of Vermont, where Sam majored in sustainable landscape horticulture; at O’Brien Nurserymen in Granby, Connecticut, where he worked for several summers; and at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a gardener after graduation. In 2019 Sam started a new role as manager of horticultural research at Mt. Cuba Center in Hockessin, Delaware, evaluating the horticultural and ecological value of native plants in the center’s trial garden.

How-To
A Better Way to Prune Smooth Hydrangeas

All of the hydrangeas in the trial bloom on new wood, which means that the flower buds develop when the shrub starts actively growing in spring and early summer. Plants…
Design
The Best Native Hydrangeas: Plant Trial Results

Everyone loves hydrangeas, but nobody wants to see a year’s worth of blooms wiped out by a deep winter freeze or a badly timed pruning session. Fortunately, there are a…
Design
Which Smooth Hydrangeas Are Best for Pollinators? Mophead or Lacecap?

Wild hydrangea inflorescences, technically called corymbs, are typically flat to dome-shaped clusters containing hundreds of individual flowers, some fertile, some sterile. The mix of sterile and fertile flowers determines the…

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