美国村舍湖花园 Cottage Lake Gardens – 美国延龄草保护与资源门户

机构概况与历史沿革

村舍湖花园（Cottage Lake Gardens, cottagelakegardens.com）坐落于美国华盛顿州伍丁维尔市东岸的村舍湖畔，是一处由园主夫妇历经二十年逐步打造的私人植物园、苗圃与乡间民宿复合体，园地面积约两英亩，距西雅图东北约 32 公里。园主早年从事法律与生物技术行业，将一片临湖林地改造为家庭花园，之后陆续增设滴灌系统、玻璃温室、林荫步道与延龄草专类展示区，并面向本地园艺俱乐部、植物学爱好者与国际访客定期开放，逐步发展为太平洋西北地区以延龄草收藏与展示为核心特色的家庭式花园目的地。

花园特色与延龄草收藏

花园由园主亲自设计，以湖岸林缘的耐阴林地植物与北美西海岸原生花卉为骨架，划分为临湖观景区、林荫步道、温室育苗区与延龄草专类展示区四个部分；其中最负盛名的「延龄草小径」汇集了全球已知的 50 余种延龄草属物种，是全球少数几处能在同一地点观赏到全部延龄草种类的花园之一。园主目前正在筹建国家级延龄草保护收藏（National Trillium Collection），其宗旨为研究、保护、繁育与推广这一稀有早春短命花卉，并陆续将繁育成功的幼株通过苗圃与网店渠道向园艺爱好者供应。

公众参观与导览活动

花园每年 4 月至 5 月延龄草盛花期举办限量的「延龄草茶会、讲座与导览」专场（Trillium Tea, Talk & Tours），访客先在室内以传统延龄草花瓷杯享用餐点与茶饮、聆听专题讲座，再由园主带领沿延龄草小径参观盛花期实景，每场限定 20 人、需提前一年预约；除春季节庆活动外，园主亦受邀至本地园艺俱乐部、西北多年生植物联盟、华盛顿大学植物园、金县图书馆系统、西北花卉园艺展及国际性岩生植物会议发表涵盖延龄草栽培、林阴花园、华盛顿州原生植物、滴灌系统、秋冬花园维护等 11 个专题的园艺讲座，累计现场听众与茶会访客逾 4500 人次。

苗圃与植物销售

花园附设的小型苗圃与玻璃温室由园主独立经营，专门繁育延龄草及本地耐阴林地植物、稀有多年生草本与早春短命花卉，产品通过自营电商网站接受预约订购与按株销售，订单以先到先得方式处理、休眠期可裸根发货以节省运费，全年在美国境内发货并按重量与目的地自动计算邮费；除电商渠道外，园艺爱好者亦可通过邮件预约的方式在春季节庆日到访苗圃现场选购，苗圃仅在延龄草茶会与导览期间向公众开放，平时需提前电话或邮件预约方可入园选购。

教育资源与志愿者计划

花园自 2012 年起开设「园艺天使」（Gardening Angels）志愿者计划，志愿者在园主指导下参与植物识别、苗圃库存登记、新花境设计与扦插分株繁殖等工作，每逢周二与周日下午开放志愿劳动时段至十月底；除志愿者外，园主亦对外提供收费 75 美元、时长 1 至 1.5 小时的上门庭园咨询（Garden Consultations），内容涵盖花境布局、植物识别、病虫害诊断、修剪建议与景观项目转介；园主还以 Great Garden Speakers 名录园艺讲师身份，定期为本地多个园艺俱乐部与西雅图公共事业局提供公益讲座与季节性花园维护工作坊。

官网：https://cottagelake.com/

About and History

Cottage Lake Gardens (cottagelakegardens.com) is a private botanical garden, plant nursery and bed-and-breakfast nestled on the east shore of Cottage Lake in Woodinville, Washington, about 32 km northeast of Seattle. The two-acre property was developed gradually over twenty years by the resident owners, who rebuilt a wooded lakeside lot into a layered landscape of lakeside viewing areas, shade trails, a propagation greenhouse and a trillium-focused display garden, and the property is now open to garden clubs, plant enthusiasts and international visitors by reservation alongside its small on-site nursery and B&B. The owners’ earlier careers in law and biotechnology shaped the garden’s working infrastructure, from the automated drip-irrigation system to the propagation glasshouse, and the resulting destination has become a fixture of the Pacific Northwest’s trillium and woodland-plant community.

Garden Design and Trillium Collection

The garden is laid out in four zones — a lakeside viewing border, a shaded woodland walk, a propagation greenhouse and a dedicated trillium display — and is designed around Pacific Northwest shade-tolerant species and West Coast native plants. Its signature Trillium Trail brings together more than fifty of the world’s known Trillium species, making the garden one of the very few places on earth where the genus can be studied in a single location. The owners are currently building a National Trillium Collection devoted to studying, conserving, growing and propagating this group of rare and endangered spring ephemerals, with surplus propagated material offered to the public through the on-site nursery and online shop.

Public Tours and Garden Talks

Each spring between April and May, the garden hosts a limited number of Trillium Tea, Talk & Tours, an indoor tea on vintage trillium china followed by a slide lecture and a guided walk along the Trillium Trail; each event is capped at twenty guests and is typically booked a year in advance. Beyond the seasonal teas, the owners deliver more than ten travelling garden talks to local clubs, the Northwest Perennial Alliance, the Washington Park Arboretum, the King County Library system, the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and international rock-garden conferences, and the cumulative audience across talks and teas has passed 4,500 visitors.

Nursery and Plant Sales

The on-site nursery and glasshouse specialise in trilliums, native woodland plants and unusual hardy perennials raised from seed by the owners, and stock is released through a dedicated e-commerce website on a first-come basis, with dormant-season bare-root shipping offered to keep freight costs down. Orders ship year-round within the United States whenever weather permits, with shipping calculated automatically by weight, packing size and destination; the nursery itself is open to the public only during the spring Trillium Tours, and off-season visits are arranged by appointment for plant collection.

Education and Volunteer Program

Since 2012 the garden has run the Gardening Angels volunteer program, in which helpers learn plant identification, database labelling, bed design, propagation by cuttings and division, and seed sowing under the owners’ guidance, with sessions on Tuesday and Sunday afternoons from February through October. The owners also offer paid on-site garden consultations covering layout, plant selection, identification, pruning, pest and disease diagnosis, and referrals to landscape contractors, and they continue to speak at local clubs, libraries and the Seattle Public Utilities as part of the Great Garden Speakers directory.

Official Site: https://cottagelake.com/