01/05/2025
In honor of May Day!
Six Historic Gardens You Need To See In Washington State
That wondrous and warm feeling you get from strolling through a beautiful garden is difficult to forget. The idyllic arboretums and gardens in Washington state are the perfect places to experience that emotion again.
Read on to learn about the best gardens to visit in Washington state this season.
🌷Meerkerk Gardens, Whidbey Island
A 25-minute drive south of Oak Harbor, you’ll find Whidbey Island’s incredible Meerkerk Gardens. This astonishing 10-acre garden on a 43-acre woodland plot features a breathtaking assemblage of garden rooms, meditation areas, ponds, walking trails, art and so much more.
🌷Chetzemoka Park, Port Townsend
Named after Chief Chetzemoka of the S’Klallam tribe, Chetzemoka Park is Port Townsend’s first community park formed by the Civics Club in 1904. The garden has antique roses, vines, rhododendrons and more.
🌷Ohme Gardens, Wenatchee
This 40-acre garden – nearly a century old – was created by Herman and Ruth Ohme starting in 1929, who had a dream of transforming the plot of land that others had considered nothing more than a desert.
🌷Kubota Gardens, Seattle
Fujitaro Kubota created the garden in 1927.The garden is instantly recognizable as having Japanese-style inspired elements.Although it is beautiful year-round, you’ll catch the cherry blossoms in bloom in the spring.
🌷Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island
You don’t want to miss out on exploring Bloedel Reserve, a 150-acre estate and garden a short ferry ride away from downtown Seattle and Elliot Bay.1951. It is now “internationally recognized for its evocative beauty as a landscape of environmental rehabilitation.”
🌷The Dunn Gardens, Seattle
was built in 1915 by the Olmstead Brothers Landscape firm and showcases the “evolution of garden design in the Pacific Northwest” with a wide range of garden displays, from beautiful flowering trilliums to majestic Douglas fir trees.
Washington State is one-of-a-kind and we invite you to get the most out of your visit. Read more at https://www.wainnsiders.com/six-historic-gardens-you-need-to-see-in-washington-state/