Garden Tour: Living Fossils
May 5, 2019
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Meet our plants - and our horticulturalist.
Free with admission. May 5
Jurassic Zoo
Living Fossils
(They outlived the dinosaurs.)
Ferns, conifers, cycads, monkey puzzles and gingkoes - they all date to prehistoric times. Discover ours!
Explore our plants
Meet our horticulturalist
The man who makes the landscape.
Get tips from our horticulturalist Bryon Jones and be awed by the power of plants at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. Meet 10am at the Pacific Rim Plaza, just inside the front gate. Free with admission.
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Love plants?
Our Zoo is nestled into one of the country's biggest urban parks - Point Defiance Park - with show gardens including rose, dahlia, iris, Japanese, Northwest and rhododendron. Our rangers even give forest tours.