This was a fine day to catch the early blooms at Washington Park Arboretum. The 230 acre arboretum is arranged around thematic gardens (Azalea Way, Winter Garden, Rhododendron Glen, etc.) as well as by taxonomic group. The Pacific Connections Garden is one of these thematic gardens. It has plants from Cascadia, China, New Zealand and Chile. The 2.5 acre New Zealand Forest in that garden features 10,000 plants!
The Puget Mill Company owned and logged this land until the late 1890s. While it became Seattle Park in 1900 it was also home to a horse speedway and a sanitary landfill.(?!?!) It was largely undeveloped until after the Arboretum was established in 1934. Currently the Arboretum is jointly managed by the City of Seattle and the University of Washington.
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