美国Streissguth花园 – 西雅图国会山附近的西北侧

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Plant profile for April 2026
Botanical name:
Osmanthus delavayi
Common name:
Delavay Osmanthus
Tag line:
A fragrant greeting anytime you walk down the Blaine stairs.

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Unknown Alazea

(Unknown Alazea)

Petasites palmatus

(Coltsfoot)

Arabis caucasica ‘Snowdrop’

(Arabis, Rockcress)

Doronicum cordatum

(Leopards Bane)

Anemone blanda

(White Windflower)

Welcome to Streissguth Gardens
Urban Oasis

Located on the northwest side of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, Streissguth Gardens is an urban oasis. A small, mostly family-maintained garden on a steep hillside, this little-known gem in the middle of bustling Seattle offers amazing views of Lake Union, downtown Seattle, and the Olympic Mountains. Plantings have been selected to offer flowers every day of the year. Along with the beautiful vegetation and view, visitors enjoy winding trails, gurgling ponds, and birdsong.

Developed gradually over the course of almost 50 years, the gardens have grown from a tangled hillside to approximately one acre of cultivated woodland and perennial beds. The oldest gardens surround the family’s two houses on Broadway East, just north of the East Blaine Street stairway. These gardens remain private, but visitors are welcome by appointment. The newer portions of the gardens lie south of the East Blaine stairs and they are now publicly owned and open to visitors year-round free of charge. The Streissguth’s still maintain these public gardens for their new owner, Seattle Parks and Recreation.

An estimated 9000 people visit the garden annually, and perhaps 35 – 40,000 people use the stairs. Described in Jake & Cathy Jaramillo’s book Seattle Stair Walks (2012) as Seattle’s second longest staircase Blaine draws urban exercise enthusiasts from all over. The book promotes the gardens lavishly and we’re grateful. Blaine (293 stairs) and Howe (292 stairs + 96 new steps under I-5 in Colonnade Park) make for an idyllic loop for those looking either for a nice walk, or an exercise route.

Background

In 1962, Dan Streissguth completed building his house on the lot he had purchased north of the Blaine Street stair. He immediately commenced work on the garden surrounding his new home. In 1965 Ann moved into the adjacent house at 1806 Broadway East and began at once working on her hillside garden. The winter of 1968 saw the two gardens combined through Ann and Dan’s marriage. The couple settled into what had been Dan’s house, leasing out Ann’s house in the years since, while continuing to care for the combined gardens. 1970 welcomed the birth of Ann and Dan’s son, Benjamin.

In 1972 the family purchased the hillside lots south of the Blaine Street stairway and began nurturing them into a cultivated green space. After twenty-four years of growth and development

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