[[Late last week Ohme Gardens announced that, due to COVID-19, the Garden would not be opening for the 2020 Season.]]

One couple’s grueling work, rooted in a deep love for Northwestern flora, has grown into a spectacular garden of handmade landscape near Wenatchee.

Ready for a roadtrip, virtual or otherwise? Just over Highway 2, Ohme Gardens sits on a rocky bluff above Wenatchee with a sweeping territorial view of the neighboring Cascades and the Columbia River valley. Today, alpine meadows, forested trails, and refreshing pools occupy what was once a scrubby hillside covered in sagebrush, dry grasses and huge rock outcroppings.

Born in the flatlands of Illinois, Herman Ohme moved to Wenatchee in 1910, drawn by his fascination with the evergreen-cloaked mountains of the Northwest. After logging failed to sit well with his love of the forest, Ohme became an apple orchardist and in 1929 he purchased a small orchard on 40 rocky acres. Where others saw wasteland, Ohme envisioned a garden. 

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GROW in The Seattle Times