BUTCHART GARDENS is INCREDIBLE!! Located in BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

13 May 2024 Leave a comment

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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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BLOOMING FLORAL BEAUTIES and TRANQUIL SETTINGS at the Dallas Arboretum

05 Oct 2021 Leave a comment

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  • Look at this flower!
  • Gotta love crazy looking flowers!
  • Coneflower dressed for the pumpkin celebration
  • Colorful coleus everywhere !
  • Lantana the size of bushes.
  • Festive ornamental peppers
  • Nature intertwines
  • Great optical illusion
  • Fountain obscures reality
  • Water Wall
  • What is really on your mind?

Along with pumpkins galore and oversized bugs, Autumn at the Arboretum, continues to spread joy with beautiful blooming gardens everywhere! I was further delighted to see so many varieties of flowering plants three and four feet tall, where as, in my home state of Missouri, I was accustomed to seeing these same plants one foot tall at the most! Another aspect about what I loved about the Arboretum was that I could curiously venture down paved paths with no clue of what was to come, yet to see surprising and tranquil settings unfold in front of me. While exploring the 66 acres, time and time again I would happen upon koi ponds, fountains, statues, rippling creeks beds and waterfalls. Most offered shaded benches just for the sitting and absorbing the beauty and nature that surrounds me. Quiet places that mends the soul. Gentle reminders to be grateful. Never underestimate what is ahead of you. Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed!