| Everybody that goes to Vancouver to visit
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| | Tea Roses are marked with country of
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| ends up going to Victoria on Vancouver
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| | origin and year selected b the American
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| Island. It is a great place to go with
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| | Rose Society. The path curves though and
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| lots of history. And the best thing to
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| | open pergola, the arches covered with
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| see and do in Victoria is Butchart
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| | climbing and arbour roses, and leads to
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| Gardens.
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| | the Sturgeon Fountain.
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| If you like flowers, you will love this
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| | The Sunken Garden is also breathtaking.
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| place. It is simply amazing. It is the
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| | If you see any postcard of Victoria, and
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| best flower garden I have even been to.
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| | it has a picture of a garden on it, it
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| It has more roses than several of the
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| | will be of the Sunken Garden. And the
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| worlds best known rose gardens. It has
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| | garden is even more beautiful in person
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| flowers of all types, of different
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| | than in the postcards.
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| climates, and they are all beautiful. Of
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| | My husband is not a big garden person.
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| course when we went they were all in
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| | And he was kind of wondering why we were
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| bloom. The best time to go is in the
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| | paying so much to go see a garden. But
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| summer months of June- August.
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| | when he got inside he fell in love with
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| Covering 55 acres, Butchart Gardens began
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| | the place as well. If we had the time we
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| with an idea by Jeannie Butchart to
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| | would have spent all day there.
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| beautify a worked-out limestone quarry
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| | Inside the actual Butchart Gardens you
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| which had supplied her husbands nearby
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| | cannot sit or walk on the grass. But
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| cement plant. Through the skillful
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| | right outside where the parking is there
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| mixture of rare and exotic shrubs, trees,
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| | are the Mediterranean Garden and here you
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| and flowers, often personally collected
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| | can sit and picnic on the grass or play
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| by the Butcharts during their world
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| | Frisbee or whatever. There is even plenty
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| travels, the now famous Sunken Garden was
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| | of shade to relax for a nap.
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| created. What started as a hobby and one
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| | During July and August they even have
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| garden grew into the Japanese, Rose and
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| | nightly fireworks displays that attract
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| Italian gardens. By the 1920s more than
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| | thousands of locals. You can sit on the
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| 50 thousand people came every year. Now,
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| | lawn close to the Concert Stage and enjoy
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| over a million people visit the gardens
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| | classical musical concerts during the day
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| every year.
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| | and fireworks at night. After dusk the
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| My favorite was the Rose garden. A short
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| | gardens are illuminated by hidden lights
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| walk through traditional perennial
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| | that transform them into something else
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| borders, covered by rose arches, leads to
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| | entirely. You have to see it for yourself
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| a frog fountain and to the right, a
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| | to understand what I am talking about.
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| wishing-well of Italian wrought-iron. You
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| | If you are in Vancouver, do yourself a
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| then wander the garden with its lawn
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| | favor and get to Butchart Gardens. You
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| surrounded by dwarf boxwood hedges and a
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| | will remember it for the rest of your
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| flagstone walk. Many varieties of Hybrid
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| | life.
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