Leaf peepers rejoice: This spectacular South Sound garden is open free for one weekend
There will be a whole lot of color packed into the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden this fall, and you’ll get a chance to see it for free Oct. 26 and 27.
The 22-acre garden next to the former Weyerhaeuser campus in Federal Way is having its Fall Foliage Festival and Plant Sale that weekend, and the normally $10 adult admission is being waived.
The festival includes garden tours, discounted rare plants grown by the garden, plant vendors and a kid’s scavenger hunt.
The garden’s extensive collection of deciduous azaleas, Japanese maples and other deciduous shrubs and trees provide a concentration of yellow, orange and red.
The garden has one of the largest collections of species rhododendrons in the world but is home to hundreds of other species.
If you go
What: Fall Foliage Festival and Plant Sale
Where: Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, 2525 S. 336th Street, Federal Way.
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., October 26-27.
Admission: Free.
Information: rhodygarden.org/
This story was originally published October 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM.
