Jim Dawson (Photo by Wen Liu)
Seattle Chinese Garden celebrated its 2016 Peony & Bamboo Festival on April 16-17, featuring unusual bamboo varieties for sale by Northwest specialty growers, displays, plant care talks and demonstrations, and cultural entertainment and Chinese painting demonstrations.
Yiqiao Jiang, who introduced the Chinese peony to the Garden, said this year’s bloom outdid last year’s, probably even those in hometown Luoyang. Jim Dawson, acting president of the Garden, said this year, the Garden would launch a major capital fundraising campaign under Mason Blacher, the new fundraising counsel.