UW Botanic Gardens is committed to enriching the lives of all community members with free public tours. Please note our tours are for individual participants not organized groups. If you wish to have a group tour, please explore your options at botanicgardens.uw.edu. To ensure a positive tour experience and the safety of our visitors, our tours are now capped at 50 attendees on a first come first serve basis. Our 1st Thursday public tours are casual walks through various areas of the 230 acre Washington Park Arboretum. Walks feature seasonal themes, collections plants, explorations of botany, and the history of our organization. Our June tour will feature our Pacific Connections Garden, displaying cultivars and native plants from our region as well as Chile, China, New Zealand and Australia. Because this garden is at the south end of the Arboretum, the tour will be starting at the Japanese Garden Parking lot. Docents will be there to greet and gather visitors and guide them across the street and up the hill to the Pacific Connections Garden.
Google maps link: www.google.com… This month we are unable to offer a shorter mobility friendly tour due to the area we will be in. Please note if you have mobility limitations this tour will include a lot of walking and some steep hills. |