Julie and Bill Miller of the Tacoma ARS Chapter planted more than a thousand daffodils around the entrance to the garden. These lead the visitor across a small glen to a sixty-foot canyon, an intriguing area for future rhododendron plantings.

The mix of conifers and deciduous trees, along with the ferns and mosses, are typical of our northwest temperate rain forest. These wild areas actually contain more biomass than the tropical rain forests.