A new garden opened today at Garden in the Woods, the 45-acre home of the Native Plant Trust and one of New England’s outstanding public gardens. The Curtis Cottage Garden honors the legacy of Will Curtis and Dick Stiles, the garden’s creators, by transforming the foundations of their cottage into a domestically scaled garden where visitors can spend time with native plants.

Wolf Landscape Architecture designed the garden in collaboration with the Trust’s expert staff, laying out its paths, walls, and plantings. The garden’s plants will extend the surrounding Woodland Garden’s season of bloom late into the summer. Even in its first spring, the Curtis Cottage Garden provides a quiet stopping place and a foreground to dramatic woodland views.