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Photo of conifers

green for generations

Get to know the
Arboretum at South Seattle College

For students, it's a classroom. For local residents, it's a park. For the city of Seattle, it is a welcome oasis of green in an increasingly densely populated city. 

As beautiful as it is today, the odds of developing an arboretum on this site weren't good in 1978, when landscape students petitioned the College to create a hands-on, outdoor classroom.

 Walking map

 

The Arboretum is bordered

on the west by 16th Ave SW

and on the east by the Landscape Horticulture classroom complex. You can stroll the Arboretum's gardens in half an hour.

 

The names of gardens on this

map are linked to images

and a description.

Acer
Garden
Mabel Davis
Garden &
Gazebo
Sequoia
Grove
Sensory
Garden
future
Native
Garden
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