The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recal…

- Louise Wilder

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach th…

- Louise Wilder

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

- Louise Wilder

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

- Louise Wilder

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of …

- Louise Wilder

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

- Louise Wilder

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

- Louise Wilder

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

- Louise Wilder

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

- Louise Wilder