If you arrive on Vancouver Island via Swartz Bay, plan a stop at the Butchart Gardens while being on your way to Victoria. When I imagine the inside of the rabbit hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland this is the place that comes most close to it. The private garden was created by Jennie Butchart in 1904 in a quarry that her husbands business had caused. You can stroll the sunken garden, a beautiful Japanese garden, a rose garden and sections focused on Italy and the Mediterranean flora.
Continue reading “Otherworldly”Otherworldly
