PHOTOS: Scenes from the 2025 West Seattle Garden Tour

FIRST 9 PHOTOS BY OLIVER HAMLIN FOR WSB

If you’re in a garden-related business, chances are you have a great garden yourself, as does Marcia Bruno (above), owner of West Seattle Nursery and Garden Center (WSB sponsor) – her west Admiral garden was the first stop on the map for today’s West Seattle Garden Tour. Ten gardens were chosen as tour stops. Here’s the fifth on the list, in west Seaview:

This garden was laden with art, including “Steel Roots” by Steve Tobin:

A notable feature of the eighth garden on the list, toward the south end of The Arroyos – its Puget Sound view:

At the ninth garden, in Seola, we photographed gardeners Janyce Lauhon-Horton and Kent Horton beneath a magnolia tree:

This is Janyce’s childhood home.

She told us she’s been gardening there for 50 years, and she’s especially fond of shade-loving plants!

These hydrangea blossoms were eye-catching too:

Container gardening was in view at some stops too, like the tenth on the list, on Puget Ridge:

And containers also caught our eye at the seventh mapped garden, in Gatewood (photos from here by WSB editor Tracy Record):

But the most striking features of this site are the gardeners’ efficient use of space, including the planting strips:

Not shown, but also notable, this home once had a golf-course-quality lawn out front. One of its owners told us they knew when they bought the house they’d never be able to maintain that. Over the years, more and more of the lawn has been carved away and turned into garden beds.

The West Seattle Garden Tour raises money for grants to nonprofits – here’s this year’s list; nominations are still being accepted for next year’s grants.

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