Bloedel Reserve

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The Bloedel Reserve has both natural and highly landscaped lakes, immaculate lawns, woods, a stone garden (formerly the swimming pool where poet Theodore Roethke drowned in 1963), a moss garden, a rhododendron glen, and a reflection garden designed with the assistance of landscape architects Richard Haag, Thomas Church, Kazimir Wall, and Danielle Stern.

botanical garden of

Bainbridge Island

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The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. Ecclesiastes 9:17 NIV

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Theodore Roethke

He suffered a heart attack in his friend S. Rasnics’ swimming pool in 1963 and died on Bainbridge Island, Washington, aged 55. The pool was later filled in and is now a zen rock garden, which can be viewed by the public at the Bloedel Reserve, a 150-acre (60 hectare) former private estate. There is no marker to indicate that the rock garden was the site of Roethke’s death.

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Wikipedia

Bloedel Reserve (Wikipedia) The Bloedel Reserve is a 150-acre (0.6 km2) forest garden on Bainbridge Island, [Washington](Washington, United States.