Lakewold Gardens
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Lakewold Gardens (10 acres) is a non-profit estate garden located at 12317 Gravelly Lake Drive SW, Lakewood, Washington. It is open year round.
The property first began in 1908 as a 5-acre home site. It was enlarged circa 1918 by purchase of an adjacent site, and sold in 1925 to Major Everett Griggs and his wife, Grace, who renamed the property "Lakewold". In 1938 the property was sold again to G. Corydon and Eulalie Wagner, who began collecting plants and engaged Thomas Church as a landscape architect. In 1986 Mrs. Wagner donated the estate to a non-profit organization.
The gardens include:
- Boxwood Parterres
- Fern Garden - hardy ferns from around the world.
- Knot garden
- Rhododendron Collection - hundreds of hybrid and species rhododendron.
- Rock Garden - gentians, saxifrages, dianthus, lewisias, dwarf rhododendrons, and alpine plants.
- Rose Garden
- Screes - one devoted primarily to lewisias, another to fuzzy-foliage alpine plants, and a third to heath and primula.
- Waterfall - alpine stream with three waterfalls, bulbs, orchids, rhododendrons, azaleas, bog plants, and primulas.
- Woodland Garden - Douglas fir, with hellebores, orchids, trillium, erythronium, and primulas.
