Articles about Linda
Linda’s work has been featured in local and national magazines and newspapers. The stories featured her work with children, healing gardens, fairy gardens, gardens of beauty and her own unique way of creating gardens.

AT HOME St. Louis Magazine May/June 2007
Linda's garden work is featured in the article "Laying Out the Land. St. Louis is blessed with a bounty of landscape architects and designers. Here are eight of the best". The photo shows Linda's large flower mandala photographs.Check out the online version of the magazine.

St. Louis Homes and Lifestyle August 2005
Natural Evolution, a melding of artistic minds (feature article on a garden created by Linda Wiggen Kraft) "Cottage gardens incorporate lots and lots of plants and lots and lots of color," Linda explains. "While they look unplanned, they are actually designed for a repetition of texture and color and the longest blooming season possible." more…

Better Homes and Gardens Perennials 2003
Island Melody –(feature article about a garden created by Linda) "The garden becomes a composition of color, form, and texture that complements the seasons and responds to the climate and conditions that support its life.Your garden should be about both your inner and outer landscape.. I want people to fall in love with their garden. They should be drawn into the garden and feel a part of it." more….

St. Louis Post Dispatch - October 17, 2002
Style West - Enchanted Enclave (story about fairy gardens) "But recent travels have begun taking Wiggen Kraft around the country in search of gardens built for people who like to think that they are in a spiritual, if not enchanted place. The relatively new Enchanted Woods at Winterthur, in Delaware's Brandywine Valley, may be her favorite, to date. She loves that garden's swirl of "story stones" for instance, on which children and grown-ups sit to hear storytellers spin yarns." more…

St. Louis Post Dispatch - October 13, 2001
Create Your Own Healing Garden (article about healing gardens after Sept. 11th) "But the handwritten messages tied on the shrub by her neighbors and friends may best tell the story."Only in and through love can we have peace", reads one. "Engage in accidental acts of kindness. We are all one," says another."May the women of the world bring their healing grace to persuade the world not to go to war," reads yet another.And, in an homage to the creators of this planting: "May your garden of flowers flourish and bring comfort and happiness to all." more...

St. Louis Homes and Lifestyle Magazine - July/August 2000
Becoming One with Your Garden (feature article on Linda Wiggen Kraft's unique approach to garden design) "I try to do more than create beautiful gardens... People often miss the tactile experience of touch lamb's ear, the sounds of birds or breeze through the trees. I think exterior spaces should be more than extensions of interior decoration. I want to make something beautiful to be in.Spend a few minutes imagining the feeling of being outdoors anywhere that evokes a sensual experience, like being at the edge of woods near water." more...

Organic Gardening - February 1998
Square Foot Gardening Goes to School (article on school gardening program
developed by Linda Wiggen Kraft) "It was my job to figure out how to get 400 children (kindergarten through fifth grade) outside so they could each quickly and easily plant their seeds. our next challenge was to devise a way that a group of 20 children could come outside for 30 minutes to an hour, get their seeds planted (without trampling the garden), stay interested in what they were doing, learn something and have fun too." "Another parent-volunteer and I came up with the 10 cool-weather crops that the children could plant directly in our cool Zone 6 ground in mid to late March, and that would mature in time to harvest before school lets out in June: beets, carrots, kohlrabi, lettuce, mustard greens, peas, radishes, spinach, Swiss chard, and turnip greens. more…