Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden: LAPC & FOTD

In early May, I visited the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden in Portland, Oregon.

The 9.5-acre garden contains more that 2,500 types of rhododendrons, azaleas, and companion plants. This site was donated by the Jackson family in 1950.

After paying admission, you’ll enter the garden over this beautiful bridge.

From the bridge, you’ll get a good view of part of Crystal Springs Lake. As you can see, visitors were wearing their raingear as the rain poured down around them on this spring day.

In the spring and summer months, visitors will see hundreds of plants in full bloom.

There’s about a mile of trails in this garden. This path takes you by a peaceful fountain.

The garden has layers of groundcovers, shrubs, and trees.

Some of the rhododendrons were taller than trees growing in my yard.

Others had interesting bark.

This trail was bordered with a wide variety of colorful blossoms.

There were many pretty varieties of azaleas, including this one with deep orange blossoms.

Here’s a close up of one of its blossom.

The landscaping along this path had groundcover plants like hostas and ferns.

Here’s a closer view of one of the hostas.

This azalea with yellow blossoms was one of my favorites.

I also liked this white rhododendron with pink highlights.

Visiting the Garden

If you plan to visit the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, you should know that parking is limited. You might want to use a rideshare service, as I did, or consider other options.

To show you the layout of this large garden, I’m including a Google satellite view. You can see the garden on the left side of the picture.

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