Hulda klager biography of martin luther

WOODLAND, Cowlitz County — Hulda Klager was 83 years old in the spring of 1948, when the Columbia and Lewis rivers swelled with heavy rains, rushed past her protests and flooded her prized lilac garden.

She had named and nurtured the shrubs and plants for 45 years.

They all died.

But Klager was a tough woman, who had already overcome her size (she was not quite five feet tall but bore four children), circumstances (she tumbled out West in a covered wagon and married a dairy farmer when she was 16) and expectations (at one time, she had hybridized 64 of the 250 varieties recognized by the International Lilac Society in Ontario, Canada).

Friends, family and strangers brought back rare species she had thought were lost forever.

World renowned for her lilacs, Hulda started plant propagation in because mealy apples didn't peel easily or make tasty pies for her husband, Frank Klager.

World renowned for her lilacs, Hulda started plant propagation in because mealy apples didn't peel easily or make tasty pies for her husband, Frank Klager.

Based on the life of Hulda Klager, Where Lilacs Still Bloom is a story of triumph over an impossible dream and the power of a generous heart.

World renowned for her lilacs, Hulda started plant propagation in because mealy apples didn't peel easily or make tasty pies for her husband.

Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens bloom bushes of purple and white in the spring, surrounding an Victorian Farmhouse and other historic buildings.

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager.

She replanted and relandscaped. Two years later, the garden was replenished. And when she died in 1960, at the age of 96, it was only after she had just finished another day working