Speaker Bio
Dale Hendricks
Gardening for a Hopeful Future
Dale Hendricks has been growing and propagating plants professionally since 1975. In 1988 he co-founded North Creek Nurseries, Inc in order to propagate and grow perennials and grasses with an emphasis on garden worthy natives. In 2008 he founded Green Light Plants, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in growing native and woodland plants renewably and organically for sustainable and fecund landscapes. He has taught plant propagation at Longwood Gardens, and lectures widely. He served on the founding board of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, is active on the program committee of the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at Millersville University, and serves on the board of Community Gardens of Chester. Dale has been honored with the American Horticulture Society’s Individual Commercial award and the Perennial Plant Association’s Young Professional award.