Seattle Area Botanical Gardens:
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street, Bellevue, WA 98005 | 425-452-2750
This 53-acre urban refuge features cultivated gardens, restored woodlands, and natural wetlands. The living collections showcase plants that thrive in the Pacific Northwest. Specialty gardens include Dahlia Garden, Fuchsia Garden, Alpine Rock Garden, and more. Nature's beauty at its best!
Bloedel Reserve
7571 NE Dolphin Drive, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 | 206-842-7631
This award-winning public garden on Bainbridge Island features 150 acres of natural woodlands and beautifully landscaped gardens, including a Japanese Garden, a Moss Garden, and Reflection Pool, and the Bloedels' former estate home. Truly a Northwest treasure!
Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens
145 Alverson Blvd, Everett, WA 98201 | 425-257-8597
Whether you need some inspiration for planning your own garden, or simply want to enjoy the peace and tranquility of a garden path, Evergreen Arboretum is your answer. With its perennial gardens and Japanese Maple Walk, the numerous sculptures and incredible fountain, it's a place you'll want to visit over and over again.
Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden
13735 24th Ave S, SeaTac, WA 98168 | 206-391-4003
Located just north of SeaTac Airport, this 10.5-acre botanical garden is truly a community project, relying on volunteers who donate thousands of hours to the garden annually. Feature gardens include Elda Behm's Paradise Garden, the Seike Japanese Garden, Sensory Garden, and more.
Kruckeberg Botanic Garden
20312 15th Ave NW, Shoreline, WA 98177 | 206-546-1281
This beautiful four-acre public garden contains a unique blend of Pacific Northwest native plants and unusual exotics set in a naturalistic wooded setting. There are more than 2,000 species, including native and exotic conifers, hardwoods, rhododendrons, magnolias, ferns and groundcovers.
Kubota Garden
9817 55th Avenue S., Seattle, WA 98178 | 206-684-4584
A stunning twenty acres of hills and valleys, the Kubota Garden features streams, waterfalls, ponds, rock outcroppings and an exceptionally rich and mature collection of plant material. This unique urban refuge displays over sixty years of vision, effort and commitment by the Kubota family.
Point Defiance Gardens
5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma, WA 98407 | 253-305-1000
Point Defiance Park is home to eight themed gardens. The Rhododendron garden is nestled in a stand of old growth forest. Azaleas, rhododendrons, Japanese cherry trees, crabapples and large and small pines flourish in the Japanese garden. The Rose Garden includes miniature roses, arbors of climbing roses, a picturesque wishing well and quaint gazebos.
Seattle Japanese Garden
1075 Lake Washington Blvd E, Seattle WA 98112 | 206-684-4725
Located within the Washington Park Arboretum, this 3-1/2 acre formal garden was designed and constructed under the supervision of world-renowned Japanese garden designer Juki Iida in 1960. The Japanese Garden represents a compressed world of mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, tablelands and a village, with each feature conveying a quiet message of its own.
Washington Park Arboretum
2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA 98112 | 206-543-8800
This 230-acre Arboretum on the shores of Lake Washington features over 40,000 trees, shrubs and vines from all around the world. Arboretum highlights include hiking, canoeing and kayaking, picnics, and enjoying the year-round collection of magnificent flowers, plants and trees.
