[2025 Brentwood Bay Attraction] Travel Guide for The Butchart Gardens (Updated Mar)

There is a well-known garden in Victoria, Canada, which is the Butchart Gardens. Butchart Gardens is a family garden. After several generations of hard work, it has become the second largest garden in the world. Butchart Gardens is very large and is divided into a comprehensive service area, a sunken garden, a rose garden, a Japanese garden, an Italian garden and a Mediterranean garden. The neatly maintained lawns and paths connect these five gardens. When you buy a ticket, you will be given a page of a visitor guide. In order to avoid repeated walking, you can study the visitor guide before visiting. The comprehensive service area is the starting point for visiting the garden. Around a place called Waterwheel Square is the visitor service center, where there are also seed and gift shops, as well as cafes and restaurants. From here, go north through the snail pond to the greenhouse built by Mr. Butchart (ShowGreenhouse). In winter, the greenhouse shows visitors the flowers they cultivate and their exquisite gardening. On the right side of the greenhouse is a small square outside the Butchart family's old residence. There are some bronze statues of small animals here, including ponies, lambs, and frogs lying on lotus leaves. There is also a slightly larger pig statue named Takaye, whose nose has been rubbed very shiny by thousands of tourists. They believe that stroking Takaye's nose will bring good luck. On the pillars of the slope Souvenir the square, roses can be seen spreading and blooming in summer, with branches hanging down. A little further ahead is a trellis full of flower baskets, where Mr. Butchart set up a gorgeous bird house for the rare and exotic birds he collected. After seeing the small animals in the square, we came to the old house of the Butchart family. These are two houses connected together, with green roofs and white lattice windows, giving people a warm and friendly feeling. The house is decorated according to the scene when the Butchart couple lived there. Many Chinese elements can be seen in the living room and the corridor facing the Italian garden. Carved mahogany furniture, high-necked blue and white porcelain vases, and Chinese lanterns hanging in the corridor. The old house is surrounded by white lattice fences on all sides. It is Mrs. Butchart's private garden, which has been kept in the same way as when she was alive, and is the only part of the garden that has never been open to the public. Walk south along a winding path, and walk down dozens of stone steps to the Sunken Garden. Here, please pay attention to the imitation oak cement handrails. The Sunken Garden is no longer a mine pit, but more like entering a deep canyon. Walking on the rock-paved path, you can see a pair of carefully repaired cypress trees on both sides, which were planted by Mrs. Butchart more than a hundred years ago. The bottom of the canyon is full of various geometric flower beds. The rock-built viewing platform in the middle is as high as the surrounding cliffs. You can get a panoramic view of the garden by climbing up the viewing platform. There are several lakes of varying sizes in the garden, which are connected by a winding stream. Continue along the path on the left side of the lake to the Ross Fountain. This was built in 1964 by Ian Ross, the grandson of the Butcharts, on the 60th anniversary of the garden. The fountain's water column is as high as 21 meters, gushing day and night, showing a gorgeous appearance. From here, a cement slope extends upwards, and the top slope is a vast lawn, which is the viewing area for summer fireworks. On the left is the bronze horse "Annabelle", which is one of the collections in the park. Behind it is the children's amusement hall and rose carousel, where you can see 30 hand-carved wooden animals and two chariots. Further away on the lawn are two towering monumental totem poles (Totem Poles), which were created by two outstanding local Aboriginal artists in a whole summer on the 100th anniversary of the Butchart family. Below the totem poles is the Fireworks Viewing Area, which is open every July and August. On Saturday nights, thousands of tourists come here to enjoy the spectacular fireworks display. Continue forward, pass the organ pavilion, and follow the flower path under the flower trellis on the left side of the Concert Lawn to the Rose Garden. The flower beds here are symmetrical and have a total of 6,600 trimmed roses neatly arranged in the flower beds. Each one is marked with the name, country of origin, and the year it was registered with the American Association. July and August every year are the beautiful seasons of the Rose Garden. After that, you will pass the carp fountain, continue forward, and pass through a red Japanese-style archway gate.è Go down the steps and you will enter the Japanese Garden. There are some Japanese bamboo pavilions, stone lamp holders, and stone pagodas in the Japanese Garden. There is a small bridge with red wooden lattice fences with Japanese characteristics over the stream. The plants here are trimmed in the style of Japanese gardening, either round, square or cylindrical. The pine and cypress trees are trimmed into a layer of clouds, like a large bonsai. The style of the garden is pure and natural, full of Buddhist Zen. In late spring, Himalayan special flowers bloom everywhere, which have become the special flowers of the Japanese Garden. From the path under the bamboo arch, you can reach the small pier at Tod Bay, where tourists can take an electric boat to visit Tod Bay. The bay pier is open seasonally, and there are some water entertainment projects here in summer. Information about the pier can be found on the official website. After leaving the Japanese Garden, follow the stone steps and climb a small slope to the Star Pond. It was originally designed for Mr. Butchart's ornamental ducks. The flower beds between the star corners are planted with colorful annual flowers. Six bronze frogs squat on the round platform in the center of the Star Pond, and water jets are sprayed from the frogs' mouths to the water. direction, so the Star Pool is also called the Frog Fountain. From the Star Pool, go south through the round arch under the plant wall to the Italian Garden, which was originally a tennis court. There is a bronze statue of Mercury in the middle of the arch entrance. There is a cross-shaped pool in the garden, with symmetrical flower beds on both sides. Every year, Butchart Gardens imports tulip bulbs from the Netherlands and plants them here in spring. The white or purple rosemary sets off the graceful tulips, which is very charming. The narrow building on the left side of the garden used to be a bowling alley. Now it is a seasonal ice cream shop that provides shade and coolness for tourists. Exit the passage under the bowling alley and return to the Water Wheel Square. Walk out of the Water Wheel Square and walk under the beautiful golden chain flower arch. The hanging golden flowers bloom colorfully in late spring, and then you will come to the next garden-the Mediterranean Garden. This garden is the best embodiment of the mild climate in this area. The garden brings together many drought-resistant flowers from all over the world that grow in a similar environment to the local area. You can return to the parking lot after the visit.