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The Butchart Gardens Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia The Butchart Gardens is fifty acres of absolute beauty. The gardens were begun in 1904 in an effort to beautify a worked-out limestone quarry site located on the 130-acre estate of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Butchart, pioneers in the manufacture of Portland Cement in Canada, and has been a family commitment ever since. I went absolutely nuts taking pictures. Everywhere I looked there was something I wanted to photograph. Then when I would walk past and look back, I wanted a picture from that side too. Narrowing down to just a few pictures to put on this page has not been an easy job.
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The Begonia Bower Up until 1939, the bower was an aviary for Mr. Butchart's ornamental birds. Now it houses the most fantastic begonias I have ever seen. They are cascade from baskets and are in the ground around the bower.
There were also the most wonderfully fragrant Fuchsia hanging among the Begonias.
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