Seattle / Bellevue / King County Area (somewhat North to South):
- Seattle P-Patch Locations & Information (allotments throughout Seattle area)
- Bradner Gardens Park (SE Seattle) P-patch, Seattle Tilth demo garden (thanks, Karen, this is one of the P-patches I really like, too.)
- Picardo Farm P-Patch & amazing soil (NE Seattle)
- Seattle Tilth Demonstration Garden at the Good Shepherd Center (Seattle)
- Kruckeberg Botanic Garden (Shoreline)
- Sky Nursery (Shopping & resident hummingbird, in Shoreline, also!)
- Dunn Gardens ( NW Seattle)
- Volunteer Park Conservatory & Park (Seattle)
- Bastyr University & its gardens (Kenmore / north of Bellevue). Its gourmet vegetarian cafeteria is open for breakfast & lunch even on weekends!
- St. Edwards State Park (Kenmore), adjacent to Bastyr University
- Rhododendron Park (Kenmore), especially at rhodie time. Thanks, Catherine!
- UW Botanic Gardens, Arboretum & lots of information (Seattle) from Karen: maybe we could do a Japanese maple walk in the fall?
- UW Miller Library & Garden (Seattle) SAGBUTT's first meeting place
- Bellevue Botanical Garden (Bellevue, of course)
- Kubota Gardens (south Seattle/Renton I-5 exit 157/158) from Karen: maybe we can visit at cherry blossom time?
- Powells Wood (Federal Way)
- Rhododendron Species Foundation & Botanical Garden (Federal Way I-5 exit 143), near Weyerhaeuser campus)
- Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection (Federal Way, Weyerhaeuser campus)- closing to the public effective April 2. SEE IT WHILE YOU CAN!
- Flower World in Maltby (Snohomish, north of Seattle/Bellevue) from Catherine: huge nursery with great pond and water features to walk around and see
- Bloedel Reserve (North end of Bainbridge Island)
- Elandan Gardens (Bremerton)
- W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory (Tacoma)
- The Chase Garden (Orting)
- Lakewold Gardens (I-5 exit 124 / Tacoma area)
- Fairie Gardens (Tumwater)
Still looking for more?
Karen, at Greenwalks , shared her list and reviews on Seattle area gardens. NOW, I find out about this nice list! And thanks to Catherine, A Gardener in Progress, for her additions.
Here is a link to even more WA Gardens from the I Love Gardens.com site, I found from one of these other garden sites.
Any future SAGBUTT meeting locations??? Stay tuned...
6 comments:
This is a great list! Bastyr is very nice and it's just beautiful in St. Edward's park!
Bellevue Botanical Gardens another favorite. Great place to take kids too, so many gardens and lots of walking trails. The others sound really interesting too. Rhododendron Park in Kenmore is very beautiful during rhodie time. Lots of walking areas and a nice park too.
Just thought of another place. Flower World in Maltby huge nursery with great pond and water features to walk around and see.
Great list! I hope we visit many in our SAGBUTT future gatherings. I'd like to suggest the UW Arboretum (maybe we could do a Japanese maple walk in the fall?), Kubota gardens (maybe we can visit at cherry blossom time?), the gardens at the Ballard Locks, and the Seattle Tilth demonstration gardens, all in Seattle. I wrote a post about this a while back, and a commenter also suggested Bradner Gardens, which I still have not been to. Happy Valentine's Day!
Catherine & Karen,
Thanks for the additions! This started out simply moving a paper list I had to electronic/blog. Boy, once you start looking, the gardens pop up all over!
I'm working on the March meeting place, but a meeting space like at the Miller library isn't so easy! Have an option I'm checking out tomorrow.
Thanks for usefu list!
Excellent list--thanks so much! With company visiting us all the time, it's really nice to have a variety of places to go, and your list definitely has that.
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