Well we took 174 pictures today! We can’t share them all with you, but will
share a few. We went to the Butchart Gardens
– a world famous garden near Victoria,
British Columbia and a National
Historic Site of Canada. Every detail in
The Butchart Gardens is framed by flowers, from the entrance sign with the
hanging arrangement within the sign
to the garbage cans, that each had a flower arrangement.
Butchart
Gardens consists of
several gardens. The Sunken Garden
(which was our favorite) was created by Jennie Butchart in an old quarry about
a hundred years ago. The Queen Elizabeth
Park Gardens
in Vancouver that
we saw last week was also created in a quarry.
What a thought to be able to look at a quarry and see a potential
garden!
We asked for Barbara’s parents help identifying a bird in a
previous post. How about identifying
this bird?
These gardens are immaculately kept, well-planned, and an
awesome display of color. The next
garden was the Rose Garden – lots of beauty here.
Look what we found in the Rose Garden.
There was also a Japanese
Garden. Not as much color here, but lots of use of
shape.
An Italian
Garden.
And other gardens, fountains, and sites.
One more full day in Canada and then back to the States.
