Supporting the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle
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Protecting & Enhancing a Northwest Treasure
Members, donors, visitors, and volunteers have helped make the Washington Park Arboretum a Northwest treasure since its founding in 1934. The Arboretum Foundation invites you to explore the Arboretum’s 230 acres and join in our mission to protect and enhance this spectacular urban green space and world-class plant collection.
$620K
The amount we gave our partners in 2020 to support the Arboretum.
13,892
The number of hours our volunteers contributed in 2019.
News Articles
Campaign to Replace the Tsutakawa Gates Surpasses Its Goal
I have a very visceral memory of the day I learned the Tsutakawa Gates were stolen from the entry to the Arboretum. It was the morning of March 19, 2020, the start of the pandemic shut down, and I had swung by my office at the Graham Visitors Center early to pick up a...
2021 Annual Meeting Report
We had a good turnout for our Virtual Annual Meeting on June 16. More than 70 Arboretum Foundation members tuned into the Zoom webinar to hear about our fiscal-year accomplishments, listen to updates from our UW and City partners, and participate in our Board of...
Hidden Treasure of the Arboretum: Mountain Stewartia
Stewartias are among the stars of the summer-flowering season at the Arboretum. While the Asian stewartia species in the main grove on the southern edge of the Camellia Collection justifiably receive a lot of praise, the lesser-known mountain stewartia (Stewartia...
Rhododendron Glen Project Awarded 2021 Founders Fund by Garden Club of America
The Foundation and its partners at the UW and City of Seattle are delighted to announce that a restoration project in the Arboretum has been awarded the prestigious Founders Fund for 2021 by the Garden Club of America (GCA). The award of $30,000 will help us complete...
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