Download Early Spring 2017 From the garden shop follow the sign to your left and visit the clear pink-flowered #1 Rhododendron schlippenbachii, the Royal Azalea. This plant is famous for its beautiful flowers in early spring as well as the wonderful orange fall foliage color. Next to R. schlippenbachii is #2 Ribes sanguineum*, Flowering Currant. […]
Download Early Summer 2016 (SEH) From the Visitor Center, stay to your left and, following the sign, walk to the Upper Woodland Garden which features many rhododendrons with thickly indumented leaf undersurfaces. Take the path between the two deciduous magnolia trees. The magnolia on your right is #1 Magno-lia sargentiana var. robusta from China. This […]
Download Late Spring 2016 Please follow the black numbered signs for this self-guided tour. Enter the courtyard and walk straight ahead to visit #1 Menziesia ciliicalyx var. multiflora* from Japan. This deciduous shrub has blue green foliage that is extremely attractive. Menziesia is a member of the rhododendron family. Follow the sign to the […]
Download Mid Spring 2016 Enter the courtyard and look to your right where you will see #1 Arisaema sikokianum*, Jack in the Pulpit. This strange-looking plant has a beautiful but unusual flower of dark purple and white. It is easily grown in the shaded garden. From the garden shop walk to your left […]
Download Late Winter 2016 #1 Rhododendron strigillosum welcomes you to the gar-den as you enter to the courtyard. This early flowering species puts on a spectacular display every year. It has distinctive bristles on the midrib, petiole, and foliage. R. strigillosum is native to Sichuan and NE Yunnan, China. Turn left on the […]
Download Winter 2015 From the Garden Shop, walk straight to visit #1 Betula jacquemontii to your left. The Himalayan White Birch is native to Kashmir in the western Himalayas and is known for its distinct, bright white bark and resistance to all of the problems that plague most other white birches in cultivation. Take a […]
Download Fall 2015 Please follow the black numbered signs for this self-guided tour. From the Garden Shop, walk straight to visit #1 Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum (Doublefile Viburnum) native to China and Japan. This deciduous shrub provides beautiful white blossoms in the spring as well as stunning reddish-bronze fall foliage color. Right behind is […]
Download Self Tour: Native Plants 2015 Please follow the green numbered signs for this self-guided tour. As you enter to the garden, a grove of #1 Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas Fir) welcomes you. This is one of the most common conifers native to the Pacific Northwest. The name comes from David Douglas, who introduced this tree […]
Download Late Spring 2015 Please follow the black numbered signs for this self-guided tour. Enter the courtyard and walk straight ahead to visit #1 Menziesia ciliicalyx var. multiflora* from Japan. This deciduous shrub has blue green foliage […]
Download Self Tour Early Spring 2015 Enter the courtyard and look to your right where you will see #1 Arisaema sikokianum*, Jack in the Pulpit. This strange-looking plant has a beautiful but unusual flower of dark purple and white. It is easily grown in the shaded garden. From the garden shop walk to […]
Download Late Winter 2015 #1 Rhododendron strigillosum welcomes you to the garden as you enter to the courtyard. This early flowering species puts on a spectacular display every year. It has distinctive bristles on the midrib, petiole, and foliage. R. strigillosum is native to Sichuan and NE Yunnan, China. Turn left on the main […]
Download the Fall_2014 Self-Tour Please follow the black numbered signsfor this self-guided tour. From the Garden Shop, walk straight to visit #1 Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum (Doublefile Viburnum*) native to China and Japan. This deciduous shrub provides beautiful white blossoms in the spring as well as stunning reddish-bronze fall foliage color. Right behind is […]
