Butchart Gardens
Butchart Gardens - flower gardens on the Canadian island of Vancouver, covering an area of 20 hectares. Gardens are unique in any season. During hot summers, cool autumn or snowy winter - there will always be something to look at in the garden. Every year, more than a million plants, representing 700 species, show the garden guests flower dresses, forcing the heart to freeze in front of this beauty. A huge variety of plants provides continuous flowering from March to October. Over a million garden guests come to enjoy the beauty of the garden gathered from all over the world.
On the site of the garden used to be limestone deposits that attracted Robert Pim Butchart here. In 1888, he began production of cement. But by 1909, the entire stock of limestone had exhausted in her career, and Jenny Butchart, the wife of Robert Pim Butchart, decided to "enjoy" this area. The gardening work was entrusted to the Japanese lanse designer Isaburo Kishida. Robert was very proud of his wife and fully supported her by gathering birds from all over the world in the garden. Ducks, parrots, peacocks became an unheard of part of the garden. In 1921, the ennoblement of the garden was completed and it was called the "Flooded Garden".
But But Butcharts seemed to be small, to the already existing beautiful Japanese garden in 1926, the Italian Garden, located on the site of tennis courts, bloomed. In 1929, the Pink Garden was also added, equipped in the territory occupied by the previous garden. In 1939, reading Butcharts gave these gardens to grandson Jan Ross in honor of the 21st anniversary. Ross continued the development of the park.
News about Butchart gardens spread very quickly. In the 1920s, over 50 thousand people attended the garden to enjoy incredible beauty. The owners of the garden equipped the houses for guests with a bowling alley, a swimming pool, a billiard room and an organ hall, as well as a restaurant. Butcharts called their possession the Italian word "Benvenuto", which translates as "Welcome". In 2004, 2 nine-meter pillars were erected in the garden in honor of the centenary of the gardens and declared a national historical monument.
