Review of Powellswood Botanical Garden

June 26, 2013 admin Pacific Northwest 2

The stairway leading down into the main garden has a railing that must have cost a simple fortune. We're reckless, so we paid it no mind.

If there’s one thing kids love, it’s everything. A botanical garden isn’t a natural first choice when it comes to the wired generation (or are these guys the wireless generation? It was nice for the adults, but the kids appreciated it too.

In our travel writing, we’ve toured a variety of botanical gardens from China to Canada to Puerto Rico, so even when the kids can’t exactly remember them, they’re still comfortable being critics.

powellswood-seattle3Powellswood recently welcomed visitors with a grand re-opening, and welcomed us (they didn’t know who we were, we just came in as visitors!) with our snappy new camera… so please enjoy some of the fantastic pictures our Costco steal was able to capture.

There are a number of different areas at Powellswood, but the grandest of them all is lined by hedges with a pond running through it and more species of plant than you could possibly hope to count. Some normal stuff like ferns, but others like flowers and towering stuff that I’d swear 99% of visitors have never seen.

The garden is open only during very specific hours, so check with them at www.PowellsWood.org to make sure you time your visit properly.

They’ve got a zillion fans, as we saw when we went in for the grand re-opening, and you’ll probably become one too, but you should still call ahead.

Watch the video review, then scroll down to see the photo gallery. And yes, we actually took every last one of these ourselves with our sparkly new (far from top-of-the-line) camera.

Here’s our video review

Here’s our photo gallery

Here you can see a three-year-old staring down into the water from one of the gardens.
Here you can see a three-year-old staring down into the water from one of the gardens.
Just some boys hanging out in the garden on a drizzly June day.
Just some boys hanging out in the garden on a drizzly June day.
Baby Max in repose by the water feature.
Baby Max in repose by the water feature.
This part of the garden has the previously mentioned (in video) banana trees... sadly, no bananas just yet. Maybe by the end of summer.
This part of the garden has the previously mentioned (in video) banana trees… sadly, no bananas just yet. Maybe by the end of summer.

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And now the mega-pictures…

The stairway leading down into the main garden has a railing that must have cost a simple fortune. We're reckless, so we paid it no mind.
The stairway leading down into the main garden has a railing that must have cost a simple fortune. We’re reckless, so we paid it no mind.
There's so much to explore and discover in Powellswood.
There’s so much to explore and discover in Powellswood.

And as a bonus, here are the kids on the day-of

They’re kids. Be kind.

2 Comments on Review of Powellswood Botanical Garden

  1. What beautiful pictures! The wide ones a tad big on my tablet, but totally worth it.

    There’s another botanical garden in Seattle. I don’t remember the name but it’s a Japanese garden. It’s also quite good. I’ve never heard of Powell’s Wood but I’ll definitely check it out.

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