Canada Charming Beauty. Butchart

Fabulous Butchart Gardens spread out on Vancouver Island are visited by a huge number of tourists every year. The Butchart Gardens are one of Victoria's most popular attractions. Paths meander among blooming gardens, lead to ponds, fountains and waterfalls, pass through wooden bridges laid over murmuring streams and numerous observation decks, pavilions and lawns. Butchart Gardens provide a unique opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of bright colors and fragrant flowers. The Butchart Gardens were laid out on the territory of a former quarry that mined lime for cement production in the early 1900s. After some time, the abandoned quarry was turned into a blooming garden. In 2004, Butchart Gardens celebrated its 100th anniversary. The Sunken Garden, Tea Houses and Rose Garden are an internationally recognized landmark in the Butchart Gardens. The history of flower gardens in Victoria began many years ago, when entrepreneur Robert Pym Butchart and his wife Jenny Butchart moved to Victoria from Ontario. It was at that time that the Canadian Pacific Railway was reconstructing bridges, the wooden structures of which were replaced by concrete ones. According to rumors, Butchart accidentally found out that there are lime deposits in the Gulf of the sea near Victoria, the reserves of which made it possible to organize cement production here. In 1904, the Vancouver-Portland Cement Company began cement production. The lime deposits were exhausted in the next few years and the quarry was closed, but the plant continued to work for some time, supplying tiles and flower pots to the market. The production was finally closed in 1950. The tall pipe left over from the old furnace still reminds of the former factory. Jenny Butchart was amazed by the pristine nature of Canada's west coast. She had every reason to believe that the mild climate would create all the necessary conditions for gardening in this region. Jenny Butchart personally sowed the first flowers in front of her house. In 1908, with the help of designer Isaburo Kishida, a beautiful Japanese garden was laid out. At the site of the quarry, work began on laying the Sunken Garden (work ended in 1921), and in 1929 a beautiful Rose Garden was founded with more than 100 species of hybrid tea roses and 400 grandiflora and climbing roses. #trip #garden #flowerlover