Walking Map of Butchart Gardens

Visiting Butchart Gardens is an easy thing to do from Victoria. You just hop on the bus number 75 to Saanichton and for a couple loons it will take you all the way to the garden gate within an hour. You can also fly on a sea plane up to Brentwood Bay or book a Greyline tour, but the city bus is the cheapest.

The gardens were raised largely by Jennie Butchart, who reclaimed the land from her family's limestone quarry used by her father's Portland cement business. Little by little, the garden expanded to the entire estate and included a variety of cultural styles. In the enormous rose garden you will find a variety of rose named after Jennie Butchart.

If you have a lazy afternoon and are looking for something to do, this is a fun short trip from Victoria. The fuschia garden is exquisite and its relatively peaceful for the amount of tourists that flood the grounds. If you are a hardcore gardener, you will enjoy the fact that there is a store where they sell all the bulbs and seeds for many of the species within the gardens.