Article: IN BLOOM TOUR OF TWO ARTFUL AREA GARDENS IS A NW SPRING DAY WELL SPENT.(Getaways)

Considering the winter just past, Northwesterners are greeting spring with extraordinary appreciation this year. The region's public gardens are some of the best places to savor the new season. Last week we visited two of them for the first time and heartily recommend them for an easy excursion from Seattle.

Lakewold Gardens in Tacoma and Elandan Gardens near Bremerton are very different from each other, but both are works of art.

We started at Lakewold Gardens, the former home of Corydon and Eulalie Wagner on the shores of Gravelly Lake in Lakewood, west of Interstate 5. During the more than 40 years they lived there, Eulalie Wagner turned the 10-acre ...

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