May 13, 2024
Butchart Gardens is one of the top 10 gardens in the world. It is located 30 minutes outside Victoria, British Columbia in Canada. The Gardens originated when Jennie Butchart decided she wanted to beautify the worked out limestone quarry that had supplied her husband’s cement plant. Jennie took 55 acres and years of collecting plants , trees, bushes, statues, fountains and flowers from their travels and turned it into the most incredible garden I have ever seen. Jennie’s gardens evolved into seven different categories: the Sunken Garden, Rose Garden, Japanese Garden, Star Pond, Italian Garden , Piazza and Mediterranean Garden. By the 1920’s more than 50,000 visited every year. Today it is still owned and operated by the original family. Butchart Gardens celebrated its 100 year anniversary in 2004. It is visited by almost one million people every year. Since I was visiting the Gardens in April, the most abundant flowers blooming were tulips – millions and millions of tulips along with many other kinds of flowers. It was absolutely spectacular !!
“Surely the flowers of a hundred spring are simply the souls of beautiful things!” – L.M. Montgomery, “The Watchman and Other Poems”
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