Garden History
Join Us for Lilies & Leaves A rare evening to celebrate the Dunn Gardens Seattle Golf Club Thursday, September 30, 6-8pm Enjoy Steve Lorton, legendary raconteur Susan Robinson, jazz singer extraordinaire Photographs by Douglas Houck Appetizers and Wine Come maintain historic beauty in a lovely way EVENT CO-CHAIRS Gayle Harris & George Vestal SUGGESTED DONATIONS […]
“Greenscapes Olmsted’s Pacific Northwest” written by Joan Hockaday charts the history of Discovery Park located on the western shores of Seattle, Washington. In 1900 the U.S. Army built Fort Lawton on its 600 acres. The City of Seattle was in negotiations with the Army from the start to incorporate the landscape architect, Olmsted’s plan for […]
The Kubota Garden, a public five acre garden in a suburb of Seattle, Washington, was originally a family business begun in 1927 by a Japanese immigrant, Fujitaro Kubota. Self-taught as a gardener, Kubota also designed the Japanese Garden in the Seattle Arboretum near the University of Washington and the Japanese Garden at Bloedel Reserve on […]
Arthur Dunn commissioned the Olmsted Brothers, a landscape architectural firm from Brookline, Massachusetts, to design the gardens of his summer retreat in the Seattle suburbs in 1915. The Olmsted firm was famous for their designs of Central Park in New York, the Biltmore in North Carolina, and Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The hallmarks of […]
Many may know that two years ago, Little and Lewis sold their garden of eighteen years and moved next door to begin anew. Like the former property, the new garden sits on about a third of an acre in a residential neighborhood, and is once again an exotic oasis surrounded by tall fir trees. The […]
We lunched at Bainbridge Nurseries founded by Junkoh Harui and his wife Christine. Next stop was a bamboo garden. What an experience. You don’t see bamboo much on the East Coast, but the two months of sun and 10 months of rain in the Northwest are a perfect clime to grow the 25 varied types […]
