Front Door Garden
Located in the center of the gravel parking lot at the entry to the Discovery Garden, this garden welcomes visitors with a large metal sculpture, featuring three Pacific Dogwood blossoms and a bee.
The sculpture was designed by Herta Kurp, a Skagit County Master Gardener and fabricated by the Skagit Valley College 2022-23 Weld Club. Anchoring the plantings in this garden is a beautiful, yellow rhododendron and a dwarf Gingko tree. The garden is also home to a number of dwarf conifers as well as an assortment of interesting native ground covers. 
The entrance station has lots of information to share. Please be sure to sign our guest book!
Front Door Garden Plant List
| Botanical Name | Cultivar | Common Name | Tree | Native |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abies koreana | 'Ice Breaker' | Korean fir | T | |
| Acinos alpinus | Alpine rock thyme | |||
| Arctostaphylos uvaursi | kinnikinnick | N | ||
| Carex testacea | orange sedge | |||
| Cornus alba | 'Bailhalo' | ivory halo dogwood | ||
| Cryptomeria japonica | 'Spiraliter falcata' | Japanese cedar | T | |
| Cryptomeria japonica | 'Birodo' | Japanese cedar | T | |
| Dryas hookeriana | Hooker's mountain-avens | N | ||
| Fragaria chiloensis | beach strawberry | N | ||
| Ginko biloba | 'Chi Chi' | maidenhair tree | T | |
| Penstemon serrulatus | Cascade penstemon | N | ||
| Picea omorika | 'Pimoko' | Siberian spruce | T | |
| Pinus banksiana | 'Schoodic' | jack pine | T | |
| Podocarpus x 'Red Tip' | 'Red Tip' | red tip mountain plum pine | T | |
| Rhododendron | 'Hotei' | yellow rhododendron | T | |
| Sedum spathulifolium | yellow stonecrop | N |