Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden

The highly maintained Miller Botanical Garden takes horticulture to a new level. Each planting provides interest that delights the eye all year long. As the seasons change, the highlights of one lead seamlessly into the next. Through its intensive horticultural displays, the garden continues in the excellent traditions of gardening upon which Mrs. Miller insisted. The complex plantings and select plant materials are intended to encourage others to look beyond the ordinary and to challenge their skills as gardeners.

Access to the garden is very limited and tours are often booked a year in advance, check the website at millergarden.org to learn more.

The Miller Botanical Garden staff, under the direction of Richie Steffen, has been working diligently—and with a clear focus—to expand upon the vision of Betty Miller to create a garden of the highest standards, both horticulturally and botanically. The result is a veritable jewel in the necklace of Puget Sound public gardens.

Richard Turner, editor emeritus, Pacific Horticulture

Betty Miller was a pioneer. Connected to every plant lover in the Pacific Northwest and many horticultural luminaries worldwide, she found, had sent to her, and squired through U.S.Customs, great plants from around the globe to thrive in our gardens. She also solidified what has become the Northwest garden style, the vast assortment and seemingly overgrown (to the Eastern and Southern eye) wilderness of plants that shelters its creator. Betty’s genius and irrepressible energy and passion for the Pacific Northwest can still be seen and savored here.

Steve Lorton, speaker, former editor, Sunset

This woodland garden is full of surprises nestled under tall northwest native conifers. Many of the plants in the garden were originally introduced to the United States by Elisabeth Miller, one of the earliest plant collectors. Don't miss the spectacular rock garden. Finally, be sure to enjoy the spectacular view of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains from the container garden.

Ciscoe Morris, author, speaker

Betty Miller, a student of art, begin to garden and came to realize the high art of horticulture in her garden. Her adventure in discovering plants and realizing how they interact, creating the habitats in which we live, is apparent in any season as one strolls through the garden.

Tanya DeMarsh Dodson, horticulturalist, public garden activist

To build a garden that makes you happy you need the right information about appropriate plants for your garden. ‘Great Plant Picks’ helps you sort out that information easily. It will make you happier in your garden.

Greg Graves, Owner, Old Goat Farm

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