When the limestone deposits were exhausted, Jennie transformed the quarry into the Sunken Garden.Over the years, the Butchart ...

There are five garden styles to enjoy; the Sunken Garden; the Rose Garden ... even on rainy days. The Butchart Gardens opens daily at 9 a.m. and closes at different times depending on the season.

Other sights to see on a stroll around the Butchart Gardens are majestic maple trees and lacquered bridges in the Japanese Garden, an impressive collection of 2,500 rose bushes – in bloom from ...

Duck under a dazzling arbor of pink to savour the Rose Garden and recall ... keep visitors in the gardens after dark. Special incentives, as well as some events, put Butchart on the world map.

The gardens — there are seven thematic sections — were built in a former limestone quarry that the owners, the Butchart family, transformed into a garden estate available to the public.

A few years back, USA Today’s 10Best chose 20 of the most beautiful public rose gardens across ... International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon, and Butchart Garden Rose Arbor in Victoria ...