Although there are many, the granddaddy of them all is the world-renowned Butchart Gardens. During the summer, the best time to visit these spectacular gardens is after 3 p.m. when excellent lighting ...

At Christmastime, a stroll around The Butchart Gardens can feel like you’re floating through the glowing, twinkling stars of the Milky Way. With more than 300,000 lights on display each holiday ...

The gardens are open year-round and feature seasonal displays. They’re located at 800 Benvenuto Ave. in Brentwood Bay, B.C., just north of Victoria. For more information, call (888) 824-7313 or ...

Not bad work if you can get it, but you may have to wait 22 years. * Butchart Gardens staff appears at the Yard, Garden and Patio Show in Portland each year, usually the last weekend of February.

At Butchart they use the sun and shade beds to their greatest advantage by planting early varieties where they’ll get spring sun to mature a little earlier, while some later-blooming types are ...

The gardens’ magical quality attracts more than 1 million visitors each year. Beyond magic, the gardens are a demonstration of skillful landscaping, planning and nursery work.

But while the clothing may have been all the rage in the 1890s, for Butchart Gardens it was just too Victorian. To their disbelief, the Chrismans were told that if they wanted to enter, they would ...