Kruckeberg Botanic Garden

The Kruckeberg Botanic Garden was founded in 1958 when Dr. Art Kruckeberg and his wife Mareen moved to a 4-acre farmhouse in Shoreline. Over the ensuing decades they created the Garden, growing nearly every plant from seed or cutting. Art and Mareen took an informal, naturalistic approach to design, combining Northwest native plants with unusual and rarely cultivated species collected from the West coast and around the world. The result is a unique Puget Sound woodland garden.

Plants occasionally available for sale.

Kruckeberg Botanic Garden
20312 15th Ave, NW
Shoreline, WA 98177

Visit the website at kruckeberg.org.

The Kruckeberg Botanic Garden embodies the love Mareen Kruckeberg and her husband Art had for the flora of this region. Mareen built her garden and nursery to epitomize her natural surround. The garden does include some notable non-native plants as well; as the Kruckebergs shared an interest in plant life in general, and Art’s botanist friends around the world gave him many plants.

Tanya DeMarsh Dodson, horticulturalist, public garden activist

A glorious bird sanctuary in a natural setting filled with enormous specimens of native and rare exotic trees and shrubs.

Ciscoe Morris, author, speaker

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