Pacific Northwest Gardening: Northwest Garden Tours - Your Favorite?, 1 by dorothy54

dorothy54 wrote:
Hello, I live on the Olympic Peninsula. Our most spectacular garden is Wasell Gardens, in Brinnon on Hood Canal. Hwy 101 (not on the coast) to Dosewallips River Rd, left onto Schoolhouse Rd. Close the gate behind you to keep out deer and elk. They have 5 densely packed acres with enormous cherry trees (blooming now), thousands of rhodies and azaleas, and an unmatched collection of Japanese maples. They've been called the Buchart of Hood Canal. Garden clubs regularly go there, and it's popular for family portraits. Lots of seating, level land.

In the same town is Whitney Gardens, & they are a retail site also. They have a tour garden also, located at Hwy 101 in "downtown" Brinnon. They have catalogs of the rhododendrons they've cultivated, sold all over the world. Beautiful right now, as well.