The rose-garden-surrounded event space is next to Elda's garden.
Back to paradise.
All quoted text was borrowed from the Highline Sea-Tac Botanical Garden website. To learn more about the history of this garden go here.
A slave to the Goddess Flora shares his garden adventures.
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Although this could very well be a picture of me finding a new treasure at a favorite nursery, it's actually an illustration by David Catrow for a children's book called Plantzilla.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
The Highline Sea-Tac Botanical Garden Part One: Elda Behm's Paradise Garden
At a recent plant sale, I picked up a card advertising another sale at the Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden. I'd never been to the garden before but had seen beautiful posts on my friend, Linda's blog. The sale was just the nudge I needed to visit. More on the sale and the other parts of the garden but today, we'll look at Elda Behm's Paradise Garden.
"Elda Behm’s Paradise Garden is a 1-acre symbolic re-creation of Elda’s Behm’s original Paradise Garden. One of the garden’s crown jewels, the Paradise Garden is located at the entrance of Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden. Elda’s original garden was condemned in 1997 to make way for the Port of Seattle’s third runway at Sea-Tac Airport. Spearheaded by local City Council member and avid gardener Stephen Lamphear, a foundation was formed to save the garden. In the winter of 2000-2001 more than 200 volunteers, the Port of Seattle, and the City of SeaTac teamed up to relocate the thousands of plants Elda had grown from seeds and cuttings to the new Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden."
"The focal point of the Paradise Garden is a recirculating water feature designed by Russell Water Gardens. The pond and stream include four waterfalls which empty into a 100-foot stream, which in turn empties into a 5,500-gallon pond. The water feature is centered around a huge cedar stump salvaged from Elda’s previous pond garden and a massive glacial erratic during pond excavation. An erratic differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests."
"In 2002, with the assistance of a group of Highline High School seniors, a 10,000-square-foot Shade Garden was added. The Shade Garden was Elda’s final contribtion to the Paradise Garden and is maintained by her good friend, Jolly Eitelberg."
All quoted text was borrowed from the Highline Sea-Tac Botanical Garden website. To learn more about the history of this garden go here.
All quoted text was borrowed from the Highline Sea-Tac Botanical Garden website. To learn more about the history of this garden go here.
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How wonderful to know that so many folks came together to save this, inc. gov't.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty cool story about how they saved this.
DeleteI'd never even heard of this garden! Thanks for the tour! It looks wonderful, and I love the story of how people came together to save it.
ReplyDeleteIt's worth a visit next time you're in the area.
DeleteI was sure I'd been to this garden as part of the 2011 Seattle Garden Bloggers Fling, yet it looked so different. Turns out we visited the South Seattle Community College Arboretum. Thanks for the tour!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure!
DeleteI've seen posts on Linda's blog about visits to this garden too, and have been meaning to go some day. Thanks for posting your pictures. That's quite a nice large clump of bronze Rodgersia. The stream and pond look lovely too. Did you enjoy your visit?
ReplyDeleteI did enjoy visiting. It was especially nice to talk about the place with volunteers on hand for the plant sale.
DeleteI always find it sad when development activity eclipses beautiful natural spaces. At least this chapter had a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteIt's a heartening story of a garden outliving the gardener.
DeleteHow wonderful that this beautiful garden was lovingly saved/moved to a new location. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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P.S. Thank you also for your kind comments you leave on my blog. :-)
It was a pleasure to visit this place and a pleasure to visit your blog!
DeleteParaíso.
ReplyDeleteLindo.
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É um lugar encantador. Obrigado por seu comentário!
DeleteWe are fortunate to live near this garden, and enjoy visiting it. It was a long process to get this garden to what it is today. Many thanks for the hard work and dedication of those involved.
ReplyDeleteWe visited Elda's Paradise Garden at her home several times before it was taken out by the third runway. Several plants in our garden came from hers.
Oh my goodness, I didn't realize that you'd visited Elda's garden on the original site. How wonderful that you have plants from her garden in your own. Thanks for posting about The Highline garden. I wouldn't have known about it otherwise.
DeleteSounds like an enjoyable visit, love the pathways and woodland feel to it!
ReplyDeleteIt was an enjoyable visit indeed!
DeleteUn luogo meraviglioso !!!Un saluto
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness! These gardens are beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing. It looks like it was a wonderful visit!
ReplyDeleteYou had me at the first photo of that great rusty metal gate. It's nice to see the bronze rodgersia; I don't see it used in gardens very often. I wonder why.
ReplyDeleteI love the water feature. Very heartening how this garden has been preserved.
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