TOURS EVENTS AND
Admission to the garden is free. A donation is requested for tours to help maintain the garden. Events, such as weddings, can be held in the formal Rose Garden. Please contact us by phone or email for more information or to find out how to volunteer.
HOURS The garden is open from dawn to dusk every day of the year.
The Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden covers 10.5 acres of display gardens, woodlands, and trails reclaimed from a suburban brownfield. Highlights of the currently developed 3 acres include the Seike Japanese Garden, “Elda Behm’s Paradise Garden”, the “Sensory Garden”, located adjacent to the SeaTac Senior Center, and display gardens planted and maintained by the King County Iris Society, Puget Sound Daylily Club, Seattle Rose Society, and the City of SeaTac Parks Department.
GARDEN HISTORY The Highline Botanical Garden Foundation was created in 1996 by volunteers determined to save Elda Behm’s award-winning cottage garden from expansion at SeaTac International Airport. The Foundation located a new home for the garden, and in 2000 the City of SeaTac, the Port of Seattle, and over 200 volunteers moved thousands of plants to their new home at North SeaTac Park. Elda Behm’s original Paradise Garden, a 35 year labor of love, was reborn to become the focus of the 10.5 acre Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden. Today you can wander along a stream, cross a bridge, relax in a pondside pergola, and enjoy the stunning array of plantings in the inimitable Elda Behm style.
MISSION Our mission is to manage and develop a community owned garden based on a plant collection that demonstrates the best horticulture and environmental practices and that creates beauty for public enjoyment.
Highline SeaTac Botanical Gardens 13735 24th Ave S, SeaTac, WA 98032 (206) 391-4003 highlinegarden.org
Sensory Garden
Main Building
Daylily Garden Parking
Iris Garden
Seike Japanese Garden
Rose Garden
Elda Behm Paradise Garden
Woodland Shade Garden
Fuchsia Garden Design donated by The Art Intitute of Seattle Student Studio - Greg Vinson / Photography By - Chad Quail
S 138th St.