Garden in the Woods is a living museum founded in 1933 by Will C. Curtis (1883-1969) and Howard O. Stiles (1910-1984), whose ashes rest here in their favorite places. In 1934, they wrote that Garden in the Woods was a dream in the realization, a years-long dream about a big wild garden in which plants would be grown, their likes and dislikes discovered, and the knowledge so gained passed on in an effort to curb the wholesale destruction of the most beautiful native plants. In 1965, they entrusted the garden to the New England Wild Flower Society for the greater conservation of wild plants.
