The Center for Urban Horticulture, part of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens

Since I was already at the Center for Urban Horticulture to see the paper botanicals exhibit I decided to explore the campus...

I first visited this extension of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens with the Garden Bloggers Fling in 2011. That visit was brief and I think I spent most of my time in the Miller Library.

I'd always wanted to really explore the area and I spent about an hour walking around.

"The Center for Urban Horticulture, opened in 1984, is part of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. It includes a 16-acre landscaped site with buildings and gardens, and the 74-acre Union Bay Natural Area, which provides publicly accessible wildlife habitat (more than 200 bird species have been sighted there) and an outdoor laboratory for UW research."[source]

There are also greenhouses, which I was hoping I could walk into.

No.

Darn it!

Those were some impressive cordylines, before last winter hit (I am assuming).

They're all staging a come back, although it will be years before they have trunks like at again.

Ha! A pine and an agave sharing a container.

That's something you don't see every day! Agave parryi ssp. huachucensis.

Sempervivum at its feet.

It's time to see what's at the top of the steps.

Nolina some somebody (?) to the side.

Part way up the steps is this handsome arctostaphylos (noID).

Oh look, there's an agave tucked in there...

Arctostaphylos x densiflora 'Harmony'

Dryopteris erythrosora 'Brilliance'

Colchicum

Lycoris squamigera

Now we're walking out to the area known as the Farm...

The orange arrows point out Husky Stadium, the only thing that reminds you you're in a very urban setting while strolling this very rural feeling farm.

Oh, check out this cool thing...

Looks like an oven, do the heat source and the food both go into the top space?

There are lots of flowers at the farm, this I knew from following Riz all these years.

There's a composting toilet too!

Another interesting structure.

With a seed library.

Looking inside...

Wheelbarrow art.

Well that's a tempting seat, don't you think?

Comfy too.

With a nice view. I enjoyed it for a few minutes and then it was time to head to the car and start the long drive back to Portland.

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