Washington may be the Evergreen State (unofficially), but the state’s output of flora ranges from rare specimen collections to manicured lawns. And, of course, there are blooming flowers of every color. Hit up the best botanical gardens open to the public.
Tacoma Life on Display Drive from Seattle: 45 minutes
Perhaps Tacoma’s peninsular Point Defiance Park Gardens gets overshadowed by the zoo and aquarium next door; those folks have a literal elephant, after all. But the cluster of rose, botanical, and native plant gardens that sit between the zoo and the ferry dock offer a calming respite from either. Though the rhody and rose collections are regional classics,
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