Garden Audio Tours

Stop. Look. Listen.

About the tours

The UW Botanic Gardens audio tours offer an inside look at two sites:

• the Pacific Connections Garden at the Arboretum
• the demonstration gardens at the Center for Urban Horticulture

Hear from experts including garden designers, curation staff, and more as they share stories about the significance of each garden to humans and the natural world.

UW Botanic Gardens produced the tours in partnership with Jack Straw Productions. The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust provided project funding.

Where to hear them

Use the links below to download files and listen anytime on your personal MP3 player at home or in the gardens themselves. Don't have a player? Stop by the visitors centers at the Arboretum and Center for Urban Horticulture. Players are available for rental. All proceeds support education initiatives like the audio tours at UW Botanic Gardens.

Listen to the audio tours!

To use the audio files on your personal MP3 player, right click on a file name and save to your computer. To listen here on the website, simply click the file names. You may need to download an audio player from the list below in order for the files to work.

Realplayer     Windows Media Player    Quicktime Player

Center for Urban Horticulture tour files

Introduction (01:18)

McVay Courtyard (03:35)

Seattle Garden Club Fragrance Garden (03:16)

Soest Garden (02:48)

South Slope and Dry Bed (03:32)

Credits (01:47)

Pacific Connections Garden tour files

Introduction (02:36)

China (02:54)

New Zealand (02:51)

Australia (02:14)

Cascadia (03:27) and cedar legend (01:53)

Chile (01:58)

Credits (02:22)