Bloedel Reserve

The Bloedel Reserve is a 140-acre (0.6 km2) forest garden on Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States.

The couple wished to capture the essence of the Japanese garden—the qualities of naturalness, subtlety, reverence, tranquility—and construct a Western expression of it.

The Bloedel Reserve has both natural and highly landscaped lakes, immaculate lawns, woods, a stone garden[1] (formerly the swimming pool where poet Theodore Roethke drowned in 1963), a moss garden, a rhododendron glen, and a reflection garden designed with the assistance of landscape architects Richard Haag, Thomas Church, Kazimir Wall, and Danielle Stern.

The Bloedels' French Chateau-style home, including many original furnishings, is preserved as a visitor center.

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