01 August 2010

vacation: Butchart Gardens

The day after driving up to Hurricane Ridge, we took the ferry over to Victoria and caught a tour bus to the Butchart Gardens.


The estate used to be a cement factory, so the grounds include an old quarry. When the work in the quarry was done, the wife of the owner converted the space into a sunken garden. One of the old smoke stacks from the factory can be in the background on the right.


Beyond the rock in the middle of the above picture is more of the garden then a pool with a fountain. The spray pattern of the fountain changes. Here they are crossed, but another picture we took has them straight up.


After the sunken garden, we went to the rose garden. At the entrance was a small fountain with a brass spitting frog.


Beyond the rose garden was a path with a big dogwood in bloom.


The spiral-fish fountain.


The Japanese garden contained a number of very green spaces and water features with waterfalls and there was also a clacking bamboo tube too.


Another cascade of water in the Japanese garden.


A long, formal garden pond.

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