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The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [1]
The Abkhazi Garden was created in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, in 1946 by Prince and Princess Abkhazi. [1] The garden is known as 'the garden that love built' and was developed by Prince Nicolas Abkhazi and Princess Marjorie ('Peggy') Abkhazi (born Marjorie Mable Jane Carter, later Marjorie Mable Jane Pemberton-Carter) over the decades that they owned the property on ...
(1981) Arboreta and Botanical Gardens of North America: a travellers guide HMS Press ISBN 0-919957-25-0 ^ Olds College Botanic Garden, Olds, Alberta ^ The Fredericton Botanic Garden , New Brunswick
British Columbia was a royal colony under British rule before it became the sixth province of Canada in 1871. Today, the region's ties to the UK are reflected in Victoria's impressive, stately ...
The Finnerty Gardens at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Finnerty Gardens is a public woodland garden located on and maintained by the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Its main feature is the sizeable collection of rhododendrons artfully arranged throughout the 2.7 hectare (6.5 acre) site. There are ...
Visitors to the gardens can watch the nursery window and view the butterflies emerging from the chrysalis, which is around 400-700 emerging butterflies, per week, that are captive-bred and shipped by butterfly farms from Costa Rica, Malaysia and London, England. The plants in the gardens are known as "host" and "food" plants for the butterflies.