Louise Beebe Wilder
American garden designer and author
About Louise Beebe Wilder
Lived 1878 – 1938 (aged 59–60). Louise Beebe Wilder was an American horticulturist, non-fiction writer, garden designer, editor and writer.
Louise Beebe Wilder (January 30, 1878 – April 20, 1938) was an American gardening writer and designer whose books are now considered classics of their era.
Biography Louise Beebe was born to a well-to-do family in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. She showed an early interest in gardening. The Fragrant Path (1932) The Rock Garden (1933) What Happens in My Garden (1935) Adventures with Hardy Bulbs (1936) The Garden in Color (1937)
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Who was Louise Beebe Wilder?
American garden designer and author
When was Louise Beebe Wilder born?
Louise Beebe Wilder was born in 1878 in Baltimore.
When did Louise Beebe Wilder die?
Louise Beebe Wilder died on 20 April 1938 in Manhattan.
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Louise Beebe Wilder was a horticulturist, non-fiction writer, garden designer, editor and writer.
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Louise Beebe Wilder was American.
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