If you’ve visited the Arboretum in the last few weeks, you’ll know that the park and its world-class plant collection were badly hit by the heavy, wet snow that fell between February 3 and 11. Our partners at UW Botanic Gardens and Seattle Parks and Recreation have been very hard at work cleaning up the …

  Blooming now in the Arboretum’s prized Camellia Collection is the cultivar Camellia japonica ‘Dewa-tairin’. First recorded in Japan in 1695, it was one of the first camellias to enter European gardens. It’s also part of a group of camellias known as the “Higos,” which boast flat, large-petalled flowers with multiple (up to 250), showy yellow …