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We know you love the Seattle Japanese Garden. And like any other public park, the Garden needs the support of people who love it in order to continue to grow and maintain the things that make it special. That's why we are introducing a new membership program in 2018!
Read MoreThe garden is a treasure trove for young ones and who see, touch, smell and hear it for the first (or one-hundreth) time. And we're delighted to announce that we've lined up many new learning opportunities for Family Saturdays in 2018.
Read MoreStarting April 2017, we began offering First Free Thursdays as a pilot program with the belief that every citizen of Seattle deserved equitable garden access. Over the course of the year, over 3,000 visitors who may not have otherwise been able to entered the gates free of charge...
Read MoreThis March-blooming rhododendron was originally identified simply as “red rhododendron (unnamed),” but the Seattle Japanese Garden Plant Committee has investigated. Now we know more!
Read MoreJapanese Holly (Ilex crenata) is a popular evergreen shrub with small, shallow-toothed foliage. Ilex crenata is native to Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and the Himalayas, and displays great variability over its range. In the wild, it grows in remarkably diverse habitats – including mountains, seashores, swamps, and dense forests.
Read MoreIt may surprise you to learn that the stone bridge in the entryway of the Seattle Japanese Garden was not a part of the 1960 construction of the garden. In fact, the stone bridge was already part of the landscape when the first plans for the garden were drafted in 1959.
Read MoreNandina domestica, usually called “heavenly bamboo” or “sacred bamboo,” is a fine-textured evergreen shrub, not a true bamboo. In Japan, it’s associated with good fortune, and often planted near residential doorways.
Read MoreWestern red cedar (Thuja plicata) is an important Pacific NW native tree with many traditional uses & meanings. As such, it’s our region’s counterpart to Japan’s iconic Japanese Cedar (Cryptomeria japonica).
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