2013 White Center Garden Tour
July 20, 20213
History
Roughly 20 years ago, the White Center Garden Tour was conceived as a single-year event by Peggy Weiss to create a positive news story about the community. The idea was that a free garden tour would attract people to White Center to learn about our interesting history, visit our local businesses, and go away with an improved image of the community we love. Peggy sought to create a network of gardeners and others with an interest in horticulture, aesthetics, and community development, who could help to build and strengthen civic life in the area. That first tour featured 10 residential, community-based, and commercial gardens, and was so successful she decided to make the tour an annual event. The tour has now showcased more than 160 garden sites and attracted more than 40,000 people to White Center. Thank you for joining us. Have fun!
Bill & Linda Banks
10826 25th Ave. SW
Our yard has always contained a vegetable garden. Now, additionally we have a mix of birch trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and colorful annuals. The birds love it and people passing by comment.
Faye Summers - rain garden
10901 26th Ave. SW (enter yard through carport on 109th)
An oversized Shorewood lot has been transformed into a garden destination featuring two rain gardens, a bamboo yard border and an outdoor living room with original art, colorful flowering plants, medicinal specimens, and young trees.
Laury Long
2645 SW 110th St.
My garden is inspired by urban farming. Our front yard boasts several grapevines, kiwi, hop vines, blueberry bushes, raspberry and various blackberry/raspberry hybrids, apple trees and three raised garden beds for vegetables.
Sarah McMahon - rain garden
2016 SW 98th St.
As part of the Rainwise program I was able to choose from a wonderful variety of plants, all of which are drought tolerant and easy to care for. Many I transplanted from the gardens of my mother, grandma, aunts and mother-in-law.
Kris McCord and Randy Winn - rain garden
9018 13th Ave. SW
We wanted to do something about the water that falls on our land. By managing the water properly we earn the benefit of inexpensive water for our plants while reducing excess runoff. Everyone wins!
Stephen Lamphear
12011 18th Ave. SW (No parking in cul-de-sac)
This 3-level collector's garden, where plants take center stage, is composed of rooms to create moods and focus. Both common and uncommon plants are staged to feature colors, textures and shapes.
Kevin and Kat Hawkinson
9228 C 15th Ave SW
Over the past four years, we have transformed a pathetic patch of grass into an inviting, yet private patio oasis. This garden combines handmade wood, metal, and stone elements with an eclectic array of flowers, vines, and shrubs.
White Center Food Bank
10289 8th Ave. SW
White Center Food Bank's garden is run by volunteers and everything harvested directly serves our clients. We are growing vegetables, fruits, herbs, and edible flowers. We also have a greenhouse this year that will help extend our growing season.
Deus Pascit Corvos (Lou Corbett)
11223 11th Ave. SW
In Nov. of 1998, a flat, overgrown lawn with a long dirt driveway began a transmutation. Now an ongoing mission with a little help from friends, it is an urban microfarm/refuge with resident fowl, pond amphibians, an ethnographic museum. Refreshments served.
Village Green Perennial Nursery
10223 26th Ave. SW
A private garden turned retail 36 years ago. We have giant trees, shade gardens, collector plants, organic veggie starts, organic soil amendments, honeybees, and chickens.
Restroom Stops
Southwest Library
9010 35th Ave. SW
Roxbury Lanes
2823 SW Roxbury St.
Roxhill Park
29th Ave. SW
Steve Cox Memorial Park
1321 SW 102nd St.
Handwritten addition
"+ White Center Lib & Fire Stations"
When you're finished...
Return to Village Green around 4pm for beverages and community building. We'll give away some free garden books, information about Rain Gardens and have special 'day of' Sales on plants and garden items. We'll wrap up at 5:00pm, so come early to meet other tour goers.
Handwritten note
Arrow pointing to "5:00pm" with handwritten correction: "6 pm"
Thank you to our generous sponsors and volunteers!
Caffè Delia, West Seattle Landscape Supply, Zippy's Burgers, Bird on a Wire, Stone Soup Gardens, Community School of West Seattle, White Center Community Development Association, White Center Chamber of Commerce, White Center Food Bank, Mariposa Naturescapes, Menrva Labs, NW Signs, Maryann Petrocelli, Washington State Permaculture, Hollowithian Photography, and Liberty Bell Printing. Community supported.
If you have any questions, please call Vera Johnson of Village Green at (206) 767-7735 or email vjvillagegreen7@gmail.com.
Handwritten notes on the page
- Top right: "2013"
- Right margin near Stephen Lamphear entry: "address correct / map wrong" with arrow.
- Below restroom stops: "+ White Center Lib & Fire Stations"
- Near event wrap-up time: "6 pm" correction.
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Source: original 2013 White Center Garden Tour program retained by Randy Winn. Scanned and transcribed September 24, 2026. Editorial corrections limited to obvious OCR errors; handwritten annotations recorded separately.
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