Canada: Butchart Gardens

Brentwood Bay, British Columbia is home to one of world’s most beautiful expanses of plants and trees—the Butchart Gardens. Featuring uninterrupted bloom from more than one million bedding plants, the site has since been designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. Each year, nearly a million visitors gape at the various gardens that contain more than 900 varieties of colorful blooms.


The Butchart Gardens grew under the careful hands of Jennie Butchart, who settled on Canada’s west coast with her husband in the early 1900s. From 1906 to 1929, Jennie built the first the Sunken Garden, and then the Japanese Garden, an Italian Garden and a Rose Garden. As early as 1920, upwards of 50,000 people would visit the garden each year. These days, the site is recognized internationally as one of the most magnificent gardens around the world.

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