组织性质与历史身份
Lakewold Gardens 是位于美国华盛顿州 Lakewood 市 Gravelly 湖南岸的一处历史遗产花园（historic garden estate），占地约 10 英亩，由私人庄园捐赠并改建为向公众开放的非营利园林机构。园址同时被列入华盛顿州历史地标 (Washington State Historic Landmark) 与美国国家历史地标 (National Historic Landmark)，保存着美国 20 世纪最优秀的园林景观设计师之一 Thomas D. Church（托马斯·丘奇）于 1958 年起持续回访并指导设计的景观作品。
发展历程与 Alexander-Wagner 家族传承
Lakewold 花园的历史可追溯至 1908 年：Emma Alexander 在 Gravelly Lake 畔购入 Lot 23 地块并建造避暑小屋；1918 年其子、跨洋航运巨头 H.F. Alexander 与夫人 Ruth 扩建为 5 英亩；1925 年 Major Everett Griggs 与夫人 Grace 购入并以中古英语 “lake-woods” 之意命名为 “Lakewold”；1938 年转至木材与煤炭实业家族成员 Corydon 与 Eulalie Wagner 手中，由 Eulalie Wagner 主导将庄园塑造成具有国际视野的园艺天堂；1990 年 Eulalie Wagner 去世后 Wagner 家族将其捐赠给公众，于 Lakewood 市政府支持下成立非营利 Lakewold Gardens 基金会持续运营至今。
花园分区与核心植物收藏
Lakewold 花园按”花园房间 (Garden Rooms)”的形式分区，主要包括由 Tom Gillies 耐寒蕨类基金会资助的 Hardy Fern Foundation Display Garden、纪念 Mary Jane ‘Squeak’ Allen 的荫生花园 (Shade Garden，以一棵有数百年树龄的多分枝花旗松”Wolf Tree”为标志)、沿人工溪流分布的 Woodland Garden (集中栽植 30 余株日本枫树 Acer palmatum，并有多株州冠军树)、岩石花园、蔷薇园、切花花园、图书馆庭院与砾石湖景观草坪。园内植物收藏以约 800 株杜鹃花为骨干，搭配 30 余株日本枫树 (含华州州冠军 Acer palmatum 与春日红叶名种 ‘Shindeshojo’)、原产 Gary Oak (Quercus garryana) 等西北本土树种，以及根据《Champion Trees of Washington State》(1996, University of Washington Press) 注册的多棵州冠军树。
公共开放、参观导览与节庆活动
花园于每年春夏秋季向公众开放，会员可全年无限次入园；每周三至周日 10:00-16:00/17:00 (冬季缩减为周五周六) 设有定时导览；六月 Mother’s Day Stroll、七月 Summer Garden Gala、八月 FairyFest、十月 All Hallows’ Eve、十一月 WinterGlow 与全年 “Pour in the Park” 等年度节庆构成非营利机构的公共活动主线。园方亦常年承办婚礼 (Wagner House 与 10 英亩花园可容纳 30 至 150 位宾客)、私属晚宴、社交聚会与小型会议，并设有 Wagner House 音乐系列、Lakewold Arts 艺术展、Yoga/Pilates in the Garden、Woodland Walks 等延伸项目以及面向 6-17 岁儿童、65 岁以上长者与现役军人提供分级优惠票价。
社区参与与非营利可持续运营
作为非营利组织，Lakewold Gardens 通过会员费、入园门票、节庆赞助、企业捐赠、个人年度花园基金 (Annual Garden Fund) 与 Planned Giving 长期捐赠多种渠道维持运营，并定期发布 Community Report (2023 年最新) 公开财务与项目数据。园方核心价值观强调教育与环境意识 (Education and Environmental Awareness)、历史传承 (Preservation of the work of Corydon and Eulalie Wagner, Thomas Church, and The H.F. Alexander Family)、社区合作 (Community Commitment to the Puget Sound region) 与财务托管 (Fiscal Stewardship)，并通过 The Garden Shop 销售稀有与本地植物及花园主题衍生品回馈运营成本。
Organization Profile and Historic Identity
Lakewold Gardens is a historic garden estate on the south shore of Gravelly Lake in Lakewood, Washington, USA. The roughly ten-acre site is operated as a nonprofit public garden and is simultaneously designated as a Washington State Historic Landmark and a U.S. National Historic Landmark. The landscape preserves work guided by Thomas D. Church, one of America’s foremost twentieth-century landscape architects, who first visited in 1958 and returned repeatedly to refine the design.
History and the Alexander-Wagner Family Legacy
The estate’s history spans four family stewardship periods: Emma Alexander acquired Lot 23 on Gravelly Lake in 1908 and built a summer cabin by 1912; her son H.F. Alexander, president of Admiral Lines steamship company, and his wife Ruth expanded the holding to five acres in 1918; Major Everett Griggs and Grace Griggs acquired the property in 1925 and renamed it ‘Lakewold,’ a Middle English term for ‘lake-woods’; and in 1938 the Wagners, led by Eulalie Wagner and her husband Corydon, transformed the estate into a horticultural haven. After Eulalie Wagner’s death the property was donated to the public and continues today under the stewardship of the Lakewold Gardens nonprofit foundation.
Garden Rooms and Core Plant Collections
The garden is organized into a sequence of garden rooms, including the Tom Gillies Hardy Fern Foundation Display Garden, the Mary Jane ‘Squeak’ Allen Shade Garden arranged under a centuries-old ‘Wolf Tree’ Douglas fir, a Woodland Garden that concentrates the property’s roughly thirty Japanese maples along a man-made stream, a Rock Garden, a Cutting Garden, a Library Court, and gravel-lake lawn vistas. The backbone of the plant collection is approximately 800 rhododendrons, supported by roughly thirty Japanese maples (including Washington State Champion Acer palmatum and the noted Acer palmatum ‘Shindeshojo’), native Quercus garryana oaks, and several trees registered in the Champion Trees of Washington State register published by University of Washington Press in 1996.
Public Access, Tours and Annual Festivals
Lakewold is open to the public seasonally and to members year-round, with timed guided tours on Fridays. Annual festivals and programs include a Mother’s Day Stroll, the Summer Garden Gala, FairyFest, All Hallows’ Eve, WinterGlow and ‘Pour in the Park.’ The estate also hosts weddings and private celebrations in the historic Wagner House and across the ten-acre grounds, alongside music, arts, yoga, woodland walks and youth horticulture programs. Admission is structured for adults, seniors, military, youth and young children, with a Third-Thursdays Pay-What-You-Can program supporting access.
Community Engagement and Nonprofit Stewardship
Operating as a registered nonprofit, Lakewold Gardens sustains its mission through memberships, admissions, event sponsorships, individual Annual Garden Fund gifts, planned giving and The Garden Shop, supplemented by published annual community reports. The foundation’s stated core values are Education and Environmental Awareness, Preservation of the legacy of Corydon and Eulalie Wagner, Thomas Church and the H.F. Alexander Family, Community Commitment to the Puget Sound region, and Fiscal Stewardship. The garden is supported, in part, by a City of Lakewood Lodging Tax Grant, and is listed on American Horticultural Society reciprocal admission networks for member benefits at over three hundred partner gardens across North America.
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