Victoria, B.C.'s well-connected network of trails and bike lanes offers beautiful views and some welcome surprises along the ...

Butchart Gardens spans 55 acres. Birdiegal/Shutterstock Spanning 55 acres, Butchart Gardens features 900 varieties of plants and is known as the "city of gardens," according to its website.

But if I had, The Butchart Gardens would have been at the top of the list. Last spring Jack and daughter Zoe and I took an Alaskan cruise which began in Anchorage and ended in Vancouver.

While crocuses and trilliums carpet the garden's forest in a riot of colour during spring, summer brings a beautiful display of vibrant pink rose ramblers that decorate the romantic Rose Arbor. The ...

The origins of Canada’s Butchart Gardens are quite different from European counterparts. In the early 1900s, Jennie Butchart transformed the scarred land of a barren limestone quarry into a lush ...

For those seeking less adrenalin, the 100-year-old Butchart Gardens with its 55 acres of glorious floral displays, fountains and fairground carousel, makes for a pleasant afternoon.

Ferns grow beneath a coast redwood tree planted in 1934 at The Butchart Gardens in Vancouver, Canada, on May 11, 2018. This species of evergreen are among the largest trees in the world.

VICTORIA, BC — When Jennie Butchart transformed a limestone quarry into a garden in 1904 she never dreamed it would blossom into a global destination. People from the Netherlands, New Zealand ...

In 1904, the Butchart family built their home amongst sheltered Tod Inlet surrounded by forests and fields in an area where there were limestone deposits, the perfect conditions for establishing a ...