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This rectangular garden filled the spot where a swimming pool once stood. The pool was meant for use by occupants of the nearby Guest House. Following the death of the University of Washington professor and poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) in the pool on 08/01/1963, the Bloedels elected to fill it in with a garden and directed the landscape architect Richard Haag (b. 1923) to design it. The Garden of Planes was conceived, in part, as a memorial to Roethke.

Demolished; the Garden of Planes was removed in the 1986 and replaced with a traditional Zen garden designed by the Los Angeles, CA, landscape architect, Dr. Koichi Kawana (1930-1990). This removal occurred just after Prentice Bloedel shifted responsibility of the estate to his son and a private foundation; the foundation wanted to have a more traditional garden space that meshed more in style with Fujitaro Kubota's (1879-1973) pond garden on the west side of the Guest House.

PCAD id: 16240