Gardens
Spokane is fortunate to be home to a wide variety of specialty and community gardens.
The Gardens of Manito Park
Duncan Garden
Duncan Garden, located in Manito Park, is a classical European Renaissance-style garden comprising three acres of the park. The garden includes manicured turf areas and vast displays of colorful annual bedding plants.
Gaiser Conservatory
The Gaiser Conservatory, located in Manito Park, was named for longtime Park Board member Dr. David Gaiser. The Conservatory is open to the public, free of charge, throughout the year. The greenhouses contain tropical, sub-tropical, and temperature plant specimens from around the world. The displays are changed seasonally. The Gaiser Conservatory hours are as follows:
| Spring | 8am to 6pm | First weekend of Daylight Saving Time to May 15 |
| Summer | 8am to 7pm | May 16 to September 15 |
| Fall | 8am to 5pm | September 16 to October 31 |
| Winter | 8am to 3:30pm | November 1 to the Friday before Daylight Saving Time |
Joel E. Ferris Perennial Garden
The Joel E. Ferris Perennial Garden, located in Manito Park provides an excellent example of the tremendous variety of colors, textures and flower types found in perennials. A seasonal variety of colorful displays begins in early spring and continues into late autumn.
Lilac Garden
The Lilac Garden in Manito Park contains well over 100 named cultivars from 23 distinct species, making it one of the most important lilac gardens in the West. In 2003, the Spokane Lilac Society made a contribution to Manito Park for an extension of the garden that is now home to Syringa Spokane, the lovely double pink lilac.
Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden
The Nishinomiya Tsutakawa Japanese Garden in Manito Park is a place of serene and natural beauty where nature, tranquility and beauty come together. The garden is open daily from 8 am to one half hour before dusk, April 1st through November 1st.
Rose Hill
Manito Park’s rose garden, Rose Hill, is home to over 150 varieties of hybrid tea roses, frandiflora, floribunda and miniature roses along with a collection of old-fashioned roses.
Other Gardens
Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens
The Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens were established in 1889 and maintained until 1932 as residential gardens for the Moore and Turner families. The gardens remained untended and were reclaimed by nature until their rediscovery in 1998 following an ice storm. Parks and Recreation staff began an extensive research process and led a community master planning process to restore the gardens approved in 2000. With grant funding and community donations, the initial restoration process began in April 2005 to rescue the rose arbor and perennial garden staircases. Myrtle Woldson came forward on December 29, 2005 to fund the restoration in honor of her mother Edwidge Woldson.
