Bradner Gardens Park

Bradner Gardens Park is a new 1.6-acre park in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of southeast Seattle at 29th Avenue South and South Grand Street.  Enter the park through one of three arbors that were designed, fabricated and installed by University of Washington architecture students in the Howard S. Wright Design / Build Studio under the tutelage of instructor Steve Badanes.  Winding paths connect the many features of Bradner Gardens Park. Stroll past seven ornamental theme gardens of the Master Gardener border: butterfly & hummingbird, fragrance, sensory, shade, xeriscape, winter interest and northwest native. Watch the bees buzz the 61 p-patch plots. Learn the alphabet under the watchful eye of the baby scarecrow in the children’s A to Z garden. Learn how to grow food crops in the Seattle Tilth and Urban Food demonstration gardens. Watch birds take shelter in the native plant habitat. See more than 50 varieties of ornamental street trees recommended for small spaces and under utility lines.  Play basketball on the renovated court that has one regulation hoop and one adjustable hoop. See the 33-foot-tall vintage (1916 to 1933) Aermotor windmill that circulates water from the seasonal pond to the dry streambed next to the children’s play area. Discover art throughout the garden: scarecrows, decorated hose bibs and pillars, a Buster Simpson wind vane, and fish signs. Sit on the salmon bench carved from a maple log by Chris Vondrasek. Watch a basketball game from the mosaic bench decorated by Coyote Junior High students. Let your eyes wander from the garden weasel wind chime by Clair Colquitt to the trellis made from garden tools. Stroll across the foot bridge to sit in the shelter of the leaf-shaped pavilion built by the architecture students.