Here’s What’s Happening in November

Saturday, November 5
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
“GIANTS”
Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden welcomes Ciscoe Morris and KING TV’s Evening Magazine to the Tin Theater for the Southwest King County World Premier of “Giants,” a documentary about the ruthlessly competitive world of growing pumpkins. Prepare to be amazed as you watch Pacific Northwest growers battle nature – and each other – to capture the giant pumpkin world’s ultimate prize. Narrated by actor Tom Skerritt and with a cameo appearance by Ciscoe, it’s a movie about growing the world’s largest pumpkin. And growing apart. All proceeds will go the Highline Botanical Garden Foundation for the support of the Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden.
Tickets: $25 in advance for Foundation members. General admission tickets go on sale at the Tin Theater On October 10, also $25.

Highline Botanical Garden
Tin Theater
923 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA 98166
Visit their website for more information or call 206-391-4003.

 

Wednesday, November 9
6:45 pm; Lecture at 7:15 pm
“Container Confidential”
Wendy Welch
Garden designer Wendy Welch shares what she has learned in 15 years of designing, installing and maintaining container gardens. Gorgeous plant combinations of trees, shrubs, conifers, perennials and annuals will inspire you. The dispelling of some long lived mythology about container culture — drainage, soils, water, fertilizer, longevity etc. will empower you to plant successful, sustainable container gardens.
Fee: Members $5; Nonmembers $10
Northwest Horticultural Society
Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle
No reservations required
Visit their website for more information or call 206-780-8172.

 

Thursday, November 10
Refreshments at 7:00 pm; Lecture at 7:15 pm
“Planting in Containers & Gardening with Pots through the Seasons”
Dunn Gardens Curators’ Lecture
Charles Price & Glenn Withey
Enjoy this entertaining, informative, and ever-popular lecture by two of the region’s leading designers and the curators of the historic Dunn Gardens, Glenn Price and Charles Withey.
Seating is limited. Visit their website http://www.dunngardens.org/ to purchase tickets.
Dunn Gardens
13533 Northshire Rd NW, Seattle, WA 98177
Tickets: $ 10 members; $12 nonmenbers
To reserve tickets visit their website or call 206-362-0933.

 

Sunday, November 13
1:00 pm
“Handmade Garden Style”
Lorene Edwards Forkner
Join award-winning garden designer and author Lorene Edwards Forkner for an exciting look at some of the step-by-step projects in her new book, “Handmade Garden Projects.“
Northwest Perennial Alliance
Tickets: $10 nonmembers; NPA members free
Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle
Visit their website or call 425-647-6004.

 

Monday, November 21
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
“Lilies”
Riz Reyes
Riz has worked at the UW Botanic Garden’s Center for Urban Horticulture and runs his own horticultural enterprise called RHR Horticulture. His garden, Landwave, is located in the Shoreline area and he is actively involved in the local horticultural community; he writes a gardening blog for seattlepi.com and his own dubbed, “The Next Generation Gardener.” He is also a part-time instructor at Edmonds Community College. Free.
Hardy Plant Society of Washington
Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle
Visit their website for more information.

 

Saturday, November 26 thru Saturday, December 31
5:00p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (last entry at 9:30 p.m.)
2011 “Garden d’Lights” at the Bellevue Botanical Garden
Brought to you by the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society, Garden d’Lights features over a half million lights which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a blossoming winter wonderland. Inspired by plants found in Northwest gardens, hundreds of volunteers work year round to bundle strings of lights into three dimensional flowers, shrubs, and vines. In addition to artistic interpretation of plants, the volunteer team has created charming animal characters. Charlotte the spider remains a favorite and will be back in her web near the Ground Cover Garden. Look for the newest member of the menagerie in Yao Garden.
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street.
Recorded Information Line: 425-452-6844
Admission is $5 per person; children 10 and under are free.
Visit their website to purchase tickets. Tickets are available beginning October 15. Find out how to visit the show for FREE.

Seattle Garden Blogger’s Fling – Day 2

Day 2 dawned bright and early as I headed over to Jessi Bloom’s house for our carpool. Jessi’s little farm in the city is near my South Snohomish County house, and certainly has far more interesting life forms. I got to meet her chickens and her new little duck. Andrea and Jayme hopped in the back seat and we cruised down to the Silver Cloud Inn.

The first stop for the gaggle of bloggers was the garden of Christopher and Michelle Epping, perched high atop a hill in Newcastle on the Eastside. As we crossed Lake Washington on the I 520 bridge Mount Rainier was visible through a slight haze, so all the locals pointed out our pride-and-joy geological landmark to our out-of-town guests (factoid: it’s the tallest mountain in the lower 50). Once we were on the Eastside, we drove up, up and up to Newcastle, finally arriving on a residential street with sweeping views of the Seattle skyline and the Olympic Mountains beyond, where Christopher met us with one of his two Maltese in tow.

I first met Christopher and Michelle in the summer of 2006, when they entered the Pacific Northwest Gardens Competition, which I chaired for ten years on behalf of the Arboretum Foundation, the Seattle Times and the Northwest Flower & Garden Show. Their garden won third prize in the competition that year (out of over 120 gardens) and they were featured in Pacific Northwest magazine. That’s quite a feat for a garden that only began in 2001, as a blank slate, with only the lawn and patio in place. It’s easy to see that they have been become true hortiholics, and often share their garden for clubs and organizations. They have a mutually agreed upon division of labor – Christopher says he likes to buy the plants, and then Michelle finds a way to put them together. She obviously has an artist’s eye for doing so.

Christopher and Michelle have completed many more projects since I last saw their garden. There’s a very steep hill at the rear of their property, and back in 2006 the landscaping was on hold, since they did not know what was going to happen when the house was built on the lot behind them. Now that construction is complete, they have planted in pockets so that the plants spill down the face of the slope.  They used a special soil in the planting pockets for erosion control that sticks better to slopes, available from Hendrikus Organics.

Also new were an iron railing on the edge of a steep stone staircase, created by Elijah Burnett of Burnett Forge. Elijah won the “Best in Show” for his hand-forged garden gate in the My Garden Gate Exhibition at the 2011 Northwest Flower & Garden Show, which is where Christopher and Michelle met him. The railing has wonderful detailing, with flowers and curlicues, and at the base it has “roots,” as if it is growing right out of the ground.

Another new addition is a beautiful bench below the stone water feature from Hidden Springs Design, also an exhibitor at the garden show. And they have added a sweet new potting shed at the side of their garden, surrounded by lavish containers and whimsical art glass baubles, and a new massive open trellis, in a sunburst pattern, to help shade their patio. Here and there they have added decorative garden lights by Stone Manor Lighting, which they also found at the garden show. (I think it’s safe to say that Christopher and Michelle were really doing their best to help the economy at last February’s garden show.)

We tore ourselves away from the fantastic view and headed on down to sea level, across Bellevue and over to Medina. Our Fling organizers promised us that “Denise Lane’s garden will wow you and feed you, spirit and soul”, and they were so right. Her one-acre garden, nurtured over many years, has been a real labor of love and a deeply needed source for Denise’s spirit and healing. Where to start to describe this memorable garden?

There’s a bit of everything in Denise’s garden, but it doesn’t succumb to “oneitis” as many collectors’ garden do. Instead, it all melds together, and Denise has carefully situated the many elements where they would be most at home. There are sunny perennial beds, a large bog area nestled into woodlands, and a 10-ton rock from Marenakos Rock Center, now surrounded by lush plantings with a more intimate seating area behind it. I first saw this rock a few years ago shortly after Marenakos delivered it. Denise was looking for a rock “with presence” so it wouldn’t disappear in the garden. It looked humongous sitting on top bare soil. Now it has settled into its new home beautifully, and you can almost miss it nestled amongst the sweeps of plants that surround it. Perfect.

One of my favorite spots is a water feature, dubbed “The Ruin,” that is a circular raised cement pond, with seven tall colored-cement columns and a large drippy cement gunnera leaf, hand crafted by local artists Little and Lewis, of Bainbridge Island. Ferns, hosta, yew and ornamental grasses surround it. It was carefully sited to be viewed from inside the house.

We enjoyed another excellent box lunch on Denise’s plaza, a former pickle-ball court, now transformed into a contemporary work of art, with deep terracotta-painted cement accented with bold lines of black Japanese rock. A long, rectangular fire table is there to warm guests on cooler evenings, but we definitely didn’t need that on our rare Seattle summer day. Next to the new plaza is a full kitchen and a garden shed. Heaven!

After lunch our next stop was at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, a 53-acre garden with woodlands, wetlands, meadows, an alpine rock garden, a water-wise garden, and a woodland-style Japanese garden. The show-stopper was the recently renovated NPA Perennial Border, which cuts a wide, vibrant swath across from the visitor’s center and the lawn.

The Border was designed by the acclaimed local designers Charles Price and Glenn Withey, who are also  the curators of the Dunn Gardens, where we visited the first day of the Fling. Once one massive, impenetrable herbaceous border, about 18 years old, it has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past three years. It is now a mixed border bisected with strolling paths and two grand staircases, all the better to get up close and personal to the plants in the collection. The perennials and shrubs have become established enough that I could clearly see the designers’ intent: a plant palette that jumps from bed to bed, as a slowly changing kaleidoscope of color changes from bold yellows and reds at the south end to cool silvery blues at the north end.

I know that Glenn and Charles have been bedeviled by the marauding bunnies and deer devouring many choice plants. They have come up with some very attractive fencing to help protect the most vulnerable plants and young trees. The new Border is also a lesson in what the deer and bunnies don’t eat. (It’s just too bad the deer can’t read 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants, by Ruth Rogers Clausen, a new Timber Press book that was in our Timber Press Swag Bags. (My copy is going to my mother in California, who is constantly fighting the deer battle in her Bay Area garden.)

Our final journey of the day took us into downtown Seattle and to the waterfront, to enjoy the Seattle Art Museum Sculpture Park. What was once a nine-acre industrial park is now a sweeping and open green space for outdoor art. The Z-shaped path has transformed the waterfront and is a tourist magnet. It was a lovely way for our out-of-state guests to get a feel for the richness of Seattle’s waterfront and the incredible views (the Mountain was out!), while still enjoying the green of the surrounding plantings. (I will confess, I like this park better seeing it in aerial views, where you can get a real perspective of how it all fits together.) Since it was about 85°F, the breezes coming off Elliott Bay were cooling and welcome.

After returning to the Silver Cloud Inn, we stopped by Suzi McCoy’s reception and enjoyed some Washington wines and hors d’oeuvres (well, except for me – I was the designated driver). Then it was off to dinner, and I’m glad we didn’t get pulled over, since I had four heads squeezed into my back seat, but only three seatbelts. I can’t even share what the conversation was – this is a PG rated blog! Let’s just say that today someone noticed some flowers that resembled a certain part of the human anatomy, and leave it at that.

Day 2 of the Seattle Garden Blogger’s Fling was pulled off by our intrepid organizers, Lorene, Debra, Marty and Mary Ann, with flawless precision. And even one of our bus drivers got into the act, bringing along his camera to photograph some of the gardens. And I do want to give a shout out to Mary-Kate Mackey, who did a grand job as our official Bus Captain. She made sure we all followed orders and no one got left behind. It was another wonderful day for the memory books, and returning home late, I shared the fun and excitement with my husband (a non-gardener). His response – “You have two more days of this?” My reply – “Oh YEA!” and then my head hit the pillow and I was out. ~ Janet

The Northwest Flower & Garden Show was proud to be a sponsor of the 2011 Seattle Garden Blogger’s Fling. Look for more photos from Day 2 on our Facebook page.

 

Here’s What’s Happening in August

Tuesday, August 2
7:00 pm
BBGS Annual Trillium Celebration
“Adventures and Words of Wisdom When Plant Hunting in SW China”
Kelly Dodson & Sue Milliken
Join plant geeks extraordinaire Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken, owners of Far Reaches Farm in Poulsbo, for a lively talk. Hosted wine and cheese tasting; dessert, coffee & champagne toast. This event is NOT at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, but is in the Factoria area, just off Richards Road near I-90.
Reservations required; door prizes.
Bellevue Botanical Garden Society
12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue, WA
Members: Free; non-members $30.
Visit the BBG website for reservations and directions, or call 425-452-4216.

Saturday, August 6
5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
“Music in the Garden”
Bellevue Botanical Garden Society
Pack a picnic dinner and a blanket to spread on the lawn for a special night of family entertainment and music in the Garden. The Fabulous Roadstars will provide excellent Dixieland music for your enjoyment. Genii Blue the Clown will entertain the kids. No alcoholic beverages and no pets, please. Parking is limited, so please consider carpooling. Open to the public.
Admission is free; donations encouraged.
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street, Bellevue, WA
Visit the BBG website or call 425-451-3755.

Sunday, August 7
1:00 pm
“Roses and Clematis as Ornamental Shrubs”
Linda Beutler
Rose devotee and clematis worshipper Linda Beutler has asked to share her knowledge about two plants she truly loves. First, she will talk about roses – with their hips, bark and foliage – as ornamental shrubs. From years of experience, she knows that if you make the right selections (and there are tens of thousands to choose from), you “can” have roses that provide interest for more than just the flowering season, like any other good ornamental shrub. Linda will share her criteria for picking the roses that work best in organically grown mixed shrub and herbaceous perennial gardens. And Linda says, believe it or not, there are also clematis which can be grown as ornamental shrubs. Since they tend to bloom during the dog days of late July and August (when most other clematis are napping in anticipation of their autumn rebloom), this is the perfect time to get acquainted with them.
Free and open to the public; no registration required.
Joy Creek Nursery
20300 NW Watson Road, Scappose, Oregon 97056
Visit the Joy Creek Nursery website for more information or call 503-543-7474.

Thursday, August 11
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
“Midsummer’s Eve”
A Party in the Gardens at the Bloedel Reserve
Wonderful things await guests at the Midsummer’s Eve garden party: A feast of small bites and heavenly pairings of wines and ales from our wonderful event partners  – more than 25 restaurants, wineries and breweries; an array of delicious desserts, served during a festive short program; Three amazing live auction items, including one never-before offered opportunity; a unique selection of delightful silent auction items; a raffle an terrific prize; and as twilight falls, linger on our lovely lawn for music (and dancing?).
Individual tickets: $125
Call 206-842-7631 for information about the benefits of table sponsorship.
To purchase tickets go to Brown Paper Tickets.
Bloedel Reserve
7571 Northeast Dolphin Drive, Bainbridge Isle, WA 98110
Visit the Bloedel Reserve website for more information.

Saturday, August 13 & Sunday, August 14
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Fronderosa Frolic
Once again horticulture devotees will be gathering in the woods to celebrate plants and gardening. The Fronderosa Frolic has become a happening event every August. Started by Judith Jones, owner of Fancy Fronds Nursery, it’s a festival of plants, both rare and common, but all invaluable for Northwest gardens, blended together with garden art and the wit and wisdom of some of the Northwest’s premier specialty growers. You will discover plants that are not available at any of the big box stores, and talk to the experts who grow them, including carnivorous plants, species Rhododendrons, plants from China, New Zealand and South Africa, and many must-have perennials. There are also some artists and gardening accessories selling hand-blown glass, sculpture, twig furniture, concrete art and much more.
Free and open to the public.
Fancy Fronds Nursery
Gold Bar, WA
Visit the Fancy Fronds website for more information, a vendor list and for driving directions.

Tuesday, August 16
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Shakespeare in the Park
“As You Like it”
Bellevue Youth Theater
Love, exile and passion flow in the Shakespeare work, “As You Like It.” This piece will be presented in an hour format. Come enjoy Shakespeare this summer in the best of Bellevue places. This event is free and presented by The Bellevue Youth Theatre Foundation.
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street, Bellevue, WA 98005
Visit the BBG website for more information or call 425-452-6826.

Thursday, August 18
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
“Seattle Children’s PlayGarden”
Wendy Welch
Wendy Welch, garden designer for the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden, will give a presentation illustrating the challenging design process for the ecologically designed garden for children of all abilities. Wendy will lead a tour of the garden that includes a butterfly garden, farm with chickens and bunnies, vegetable garden, water wise garden, and much more.
Members $25; Non-members $35.00; limit 15
Northwest Horticultural Society
Seattle Children’s PlayGarden
1745 – 24th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144
Visit the NHS website for more information or call 206-780-8172.

Saturday, August 20
Garden Conservancy Open Days
Olympia, WA Area
Visit six of the south Puget Sound region’s most celebrated gardens that include features such as waterwise gardening, a rain garden, a massive Koi pond with hundreds of Koi, a Certified Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary, a garden with over 4,000 plants, gurgling waterfalls, a grape arbour, and an Asian-inspired, Northwest fusion garden. Unlike pre-programmed garden tours, Open Days garden tours are self-guided and flexible. You can shape your itinerary and set the pace to suit your interests. Information for a limited number of gardens (those whose owners agree to be online) is also available on their website. Open Days are rain or shine events and no reservations are required.
Admission to each private garden is $5 per person (cash or check); children 12 and under free.
Visit the Garden Conservancy website for more information about discounted tickets or to order a 2011 Open Days Directory.

Saturday, August 20
Sunday, August 21
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Eastside Fuchsia Society Plant Show and Sale
Featuring a great selection of plants from Eastside gardeners.
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street, Bellevue, WA 98005
Visit the BBG website for more information or call 425-452-2750.

Friday, August 26
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Saturday, August 27 & Sunday, August 28
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
“Art in the Garden”
Bellevue Botanical Garden Society
The second annual “Art in the Garden” features 30 artists this year and added a half-day on Friday! This beautiful exhibit is produced by Bellevue Botanical Garden Society and Gallery by the Bay. Sculptures and garden art by thirty outstanding Northwest artists will grace the gardens, each in its own private space. From the serious and simplistic to the whimsical and elaborate, exhibits will include works in metal, wood, blown and fused glass, bronze and other outdoor-appropriate materials. A number of artists will be on hand to discuss their work; a percentage of all sales will be donated to support Garden projects.
Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main Street, Bellevue, WA 98005
Visit the BBG website for more information or call 425-451-3755.

PLAN AHEAD

Friday, September 23
5:30 pm
“Alice in Gardenland”
BBGS 2011 Gala Auction
The event of the season – cocktails, silent auction, dinner and live auction with famed auctioneer John Curley and his trusted sidekick, Jim Dever, from “Evening Magazine” fame. Watch the BBG website as more information is available – including the many fabulous auctions items perfect for gardening enthusiasts.
Tickets $110 per person
Bellevue Botanical Garden Society
Harbor Club
777 108th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
Visit the BBG website for more information and to purchase tickets.

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Seattle Children’s PlayGarden
Give & Grow Luncheon!
There is no charge for admission. During the program, guests will learn about the PlayGarden’s mission and have the opportunity to make a donation to help more children benefit from our inclusive recreational and therapeutic programs. To ensure that as many supporters as possible can attend our most important fundraiser of the year, we are pleased to announce a new date and location for our Give & Grow Luncheon. We hope you will join us to learn how your support will enhance the lives of children with special needs in our community. Would you consider being a Table Captain and/or Sponsor of the luncheon?
Seattle Children’s PlayGarden
The Four Seasons Hotel
99 Union Street, Seattle, WA 98101
Visit the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden website for more information or call 206-227-5458.

Let’s hope “summer” sticks around for more than three days for these great August events in the Pacific Northwest.  Before we know it, fall will have arrived and with it, the rainy season. Huh? It seems like the “rainy season” never left, but look at it this way - at least we don’t have to water so often. And, there are only 197 days until the opening of the 2012 Northwest Flower & Garden Show! There’s always a silver lining somewhere.~ Janet

Don’t Miss this Enchanting Evening

Register now for “Enchanted Garden,” the annual Bellevue Botanical Garden Society’s dinner and auction, to be held on Friday, September 24 at 5:30 pm. Popular auctioneer John Curley will be tempting you to raise your paddle again and again for the fabulous gardening art, accessories, plants and getaways. He’ll have his trusted sidekick, Evening Magazine’s Jim Dever, assisting him.

 This year the auction moves to the Harbor Club Bellevue, which offers an elegant, relaxing atmosphere. The dinner menu has been designed by famed chef David Thierry, and includes a sumptuous four-course harvest menu designed specifically with the garden-loving guests in mind. You will be greeted with a glass of champagne from Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, and during the meal, the wine pairings for each course have been chosen by Bareoot’s Zach Hilfman.

Last year the “Harvest Hoedown” theme encouraged guests to get into the spirit wearing their best country duds. This year’s “Enchanted Garden” theme will mean bringing out your flowery summer dresses, or maybe adding a few butterflies to a garden hat. 

This is a garden lover’s auction and you won’t find these events and experiences in any store. There will be one-of-a-kind garden sculptures; vacation stays in Orcas Island, Sun Valley, Maui; wine tastings; garden tours, theme gourmet dinners; many art pieces, birdhouses and planted containers, and, of course, a great selection of unusual plants donated from nurseries and specialty growers. Start planning your auction strategy in advance by checking out their catalog, which you can find online at http://www.bellevuebotanical.org/ after September 15.

The tickets are $110 per person and Patrons are $150 per person. Or organize a table with a group of friends and the evening is even more festive – a table for 8 is $880, a table for 10 is $1,100 and a Patron table for 8 is $1,200. (Contributions are tax deductible.) The event is usually a sellout, so don’t wait to buy your tickets.

The annual September fete is a fun way to support the Bellevue Botanical Garden, an important botanical collection that includes the Yao Japanese garden, a rhododendron glen, a rock garden, a waterwise garden, fuchsia and dahlia gardens and the NPA perennial border. It is the only fundraising event to support all the Society’s programs for the public, including the Mothers Day celebration, Music in the Garden, and the invaluable ‘Living Lab’ program for children.  

Living Lab provides quality science and botany-related educational opportunities for youth.  It includes different modules for different elementary school age children that satisfy school district science requirements. The aim is to teach children about the environment, soils, and historical use of plants by Native Americans. Accredited teachers are hired and each year about 1000 eager children go through the program in spring and fall. These might be the future horticulturists and nursery owners of tomorrow so it’s vital to get them away from their electronic devices and expose them to plants and nature!

The money raised at the annual auction also goes to printed educational materials, purchasing plants, supporting garden renovations, the popular docent program and helping to fund Garden d’Lights, which is more fanciful every year and has become a must-see regional attraction for the holidays.

The Bellevue Botanical Garden has a lot in store in the coming future. They are raising funds for a new educational center, and are developing the new Ravine Garden, which will feature a 150-ft. suspension bridge and a Sun Terrace/Wetland Garden. Currently Jim Olson of Olson Kundig Architects is designing the structures and entry sequence, and the renowned Dan Hinkley is consulting on appropriate plants. The BBG hopes to break ground in early 2011 for this new feature. - Janet

Bellevue Botanical Garden D’Lights

Ever wonder what a holiday-lights festival would be like if gardeners designed it? Garden D’Lights at the Bellevue Botanical Garden in Washington has the answer. Every year at this time, the Bellevue Botanical Garden’s planting beds, well known for their fabulous mixed border plantings that inspire gardeners from far & wide, make way for this cheery seasonal display.

And what a magical sight to behold – a garden of flowers created with nearly a half a million lights. Talk about your winter-interest garden! Truly a labor of love, thousands of volunteer hours go into the creation of this spectacle. According to the garden’s website, hundreds of volunteers work a combined total of 10,000 hours to put it on. (Go here to learn how to get involved.)

This dazzling display can be seen each evening, 5:00pm to 9:30 pm, from now through December 31st. And the best part? This festive, family-friendly event is free. Donations are welcome and an important means of providing ongoing funding for the event. Full event details can be found here, including parking instructions.

Photo courtesy of the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society – reprinted with permission.