The Gardens

Ms Katie and I visited The Butchart Gardens. Oh my...

These few pictures will not do justice to the gardens beauty. I will admit to going a little crazy with the camera but there was SO much!

100 years ago this land was a worked-out limestone quarry which had supplied Robert Pim Butchart's nearby cement plant. Jennie Butchard had an idea to beautify the old quarry. While Jennie's project started small it isn't small now!! The gardens cover over 55 acres and there are close to a million visitors every year!

Since walking the gardens would be way too much for Ms Katie, we rented an amazing chair on wheels and rolled along the paths. It felt like we were walking in and through an oil painting! There was every color in the rainbow and more! There more shapes that any human could ever draw, more textures than you could ever imagine and the designs were breathtaking. The scents floating on the breezes were soft and gentle. You could hear sounds of water rippling and splashing all through the gardens. It was cool under the trees and warm in the sun. Some places were so spectacular that even the voices were hushed.

And for you who are nit-picks about your yards, you know who you are, there was not one blade of grass out of place, NO weeds, no brown spots and not one 'past it's prime' blossom. Amazing!