Archives Accession # 136

2.01.24.00 Seattle Chinese Garden (once called The Delicate Garden; also known as Xi Hua Yuan)

Date statement: : 1987-2013
Summary:

 1 folder

Description:

 2/2013 Seattle Chinese Garden Newsletter.
6/2005 Seattle Chinese Garden Update mailer.
2000-2001 Lecture series brochure, "Rediscovering China," Seattle Chinese Garden Society and South Seattle Community College.
9/8/2000 "Rediscovering China: gardens, art and history" lecture series packet.
2000 Garden Tours to China flier.
after 1999, "Knowing the Spring Courtyard and Elisabeth Carey Miller Garden Plant Guide," map and list.
1999 Plant List, "Originally Generated by Mrs. Pendleton Miller and Madam Wu."
1 1988 packet on the Chinese Garden in Seattle known as the Delicate Garden.
"Description of the Plan Scheme of the Delicate Garden," 2 copies of Part I, and one of Part II, 1988.
n.d. map with key.
n.d. Self-Guided Tour folder.
Seattle Chinese Garden Society membership brochure (2). 
5/4-6/30 Xi Hua  Yuan: A Chinese Garden for Seattle flier for Seattle Public Library exhibit.
"A Wise and Prudent Investment" fundraising card.
"Visit China for a Day" information card.
n.d. Seattle Chinese Garden Society orange information sheet.
n.d. Art of the Chinese Garden acknowledgements and plant list.

in the news:
8/7/2011, "Symbolism Meets Reality," Seattle Times.
2/23/2011, Seattle Chinese Garden opens gates, Queen Anne & Magnolia News et al.
2/7/2011, "Breath of China at new garden," Seattle Times.
8/16/2010, "Chinese garden begins to bloom," Seattle Times.
Fall 2008, "Seattle Chinese Garden Begins to Take Shape," by Phil Wood, WPA Bulletin.
5/31/2005, "Elaborate Chinese garden planned," Seattle Times.
6/3/2001, "Planting Ideas" Seattle Times.
6/2/2000, letter to the editor "Chinese Garden: the idea originated with Mayor Charles Royer," Seattle P-I.
2/28/1999, "Building on Tradition," Seattle P-I.
6/1998, "Chinese garden project gains diverse support base," Northwest Asian Weekly.
11/12/1997, "Chinese sister-city ties will flower in garden project," Seattle P-I.
5/30/1997, "Sister cities, cousin gardens," Oregonian.
12/4/1990,"Plans for classical Chinese garden on track," Seattle Times.
5/1990 "Yin Meets Yang in Seattle Chinese Garden," American Horticulturist.
9/28/1988, 'A Chinese Garden Grows in West Seattle," the Weekly
7/15/1988, "West Seattle site favored for city's Chinese garden," Seattle P-I.
8/12-18/1987, "Can Seattle Afford the Gift of a Chinese Garden?," the Weekly.

Accession date: 2012-04-24 Last updated: 2023-04-26 10:13:24
Subjects: Handicapped accessible gardens, Delicate Garden, Seattle Chinese Garden, Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden

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