This year’s tour features five private gardens and two community gardens along the eastern shore of Lake Washington, from Bothell to Bellevue. Members are welcome to bring a non-member guest. Please register if you are planning to attend. Details and addresses will be emailed a few days before the event.

Your NHS Board looks forward to welcoming you to these five unique private gardens, which showcase the interests of their owners, including:

A Bellevue garden filled with color, fragrance, and flowers, marrying a love for plants (especially the rare and unusual) with training as a garden designer.

A one-acre plant lover’s paradise in Medina, with a wide variety of habitats allowing for a diverse range of plant material, including rare or unusual finds. Drifts of perennials, annuals, shrubs, and trees provide year-round color, texture, and berries. A Little and Lewis ruin, entertaining terrace, clay bog, fountains, and waterfalls provide more hardscape, separating the garden into rooms.

A Champagne Point garden developed over 30 years, transformed from an impenetrable tangle of blackberry and other invasive species into a utopia of rare plants, exotic fowl, native habitat, and much more.

A 1/2-acre colorful garden on a slope, including a cutting garden and the owner’s favorite dahlias.

The garden of an NHS Board member in Bothell, demonstrating her love for plants, texture, and design.

In addition, you can explore two community gardens along the way:

Fenton Spur Park on the Kirkland Google Campus featuring a Community Food Garden installed and maintained by the Seattle Urban Farm Company. Food from the garden is regularly donated to Hopelink, a nonprofit working to reduce poverty in King and Snohomish Counties.

McMenamins Anderson School in Bothell. From a wild meadow, mixed perennial border, desert garden, and tropical lagoon, it’s a plant lover’s paradise, always changing and evolving. The extensive kitchen garden produces fresh, organic produce for the three restaurants on the property.

Both locations have restrooms and food available. Carpooling is encouraged.