Butchart Gardens

Lose yourself in a palette of colours as exotic flowers from all over the world beckon you. The trees spread their shade around, the leaves furl and unfurl, a carpet of green spreads under your feet and the bushes are topped with myriad colours, each flower competing with the other to showcase its beauty. For a moment, you wonder if this is the Garden of Eden. Once a quarry, the Butcharts had built an ancestral home and a factory here more than hundred years ago. However as limestone deposits reduced, the lady of the house planned to get into gardening and converted the quarry into a Sunken Garden. It started blooming slowly as the landscape changed into a Japanese, Italian, Mediterranean, and Rose Garden. There are more than 900 varieties of flora here and the flowers treat you to a spectacular display as they have been crafted gently by the gardeners every season.