Butchart Gardens a kaleidoscope of colors

 A Japanese master gardener was brought over in the early 1900s to make a peaceful retreat on Vancouver island for a wealthy Canadian family. From the serene beginnings of the Japanese garden, the worlds most famous garden was created. The Butchart Gardens, just outside Victoria B.C., is a little more than a hundred years old and has amazed people with mother nature's beauty ever since. The flowers, the branches, the leaves and the rocks blend in such pleasing ways that you are literally hypnotized as you walk through at your own pace. You can smell, touch and feel the beauty around you and your senses become overloaded. This is the only man made structure on our entire trip that left us feeling blessed for visiting it. It reminded me that in each of us is a little garden yearning to be tended; and yes, we totally recommend visiting this place.   
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