Inside the Italian garden
Buchart Gardens, etc.
Finally (if you have lasted this long . . . ) me at Botany Bay looking out across the Pacific Ocean
And hundreds of miles away, walking through the forest in Wells Gray Provincial Park
Oh gosh, that was gorgeous. I hadn't been there since jr high(long time ago) and we always went in July or August.
Thanks for posting all the pics.
Gives one ideas for fall planting . . . doesn't it!
Michaela, the gardens are spectacular. Your excellent photography, along with the descriptions, almost takes me there. What a wonderful trip! I'm glad you shared the closeup of the underplantings. They are so pretty the way they did it. Of course, I don't have acres & acres, but I might be able to manage a small area. I just planted some English daisies and forget-me-nots, too, darn it. I need tulip bulbs, STAT!
Welcome home, jan
Thanks, Jan.
Well, I will be 'summer sowing' English daisies and wallflowers and will plant them out with bulbs in the fall . . . then we will see how successful I am!
Now I used to have gorgeous blue forget-me-nots like that -
I thought they were perennial but they turned out to nbe self-seeding annuals. One layer of mulch wiped them out. :-(
Oh My! Gorgeous.
See? All we need is an abandoned quarry, 100 years, and 50 gardeners! - oh, and world class landscape architects, and an endless supply of money!
Buchart Gardens is world famous - bus loads of visitors arrive all day long during the summer
We have the 50 gardeners, what were the other things we needed? Oh, an endless supply of money, a hundred years . . . oh well, no abandoned quarry, shucks!
Darn!
That was beautiful Michaela!! I enjoyed visiting the gardens through your photos. The tulips and underplantings are awesome. Eleanor
p.s. - You are going back in July to take pics of the roses in bloom, right?? LOL
wHAT a great oppertunity, thanks for the garden trip.
Wish I had 1/4 of the pro gardeners.
That place makes my gardens look like "Dogpatch"
Love the way that the plants grow up there!!! I went to Seattle and Victoria, BC in midsummer and it was the best! Godzilla sized plants.
What a great trip, Michaela!
Thanks for sharing it with us!
Martha
Thanks so much for the trip to the gardens.I have travelled out to Vancouver 31times but never made over to buchard gardens. alway regreted it.You gave me a taste of howw beautiful the garden is.JOY
Thanks so much for sharing!!! I feel like I was there with you taking part in the tours! Amazing! Are you sure those are your daughters and NOT your sisters?? LOL You all look great!
wow that is beautiful.... thank you for sharing your pics
Michaela, what a beautiful place to see....I can't imagine what it must be like in person! Thank you so much for sharing your photos with us!!!
Thanks for the tour. DH and I were there about 15 years ago (before digitals) and our pics are somewhere? The story of the gardens is amazing to me..........the Portland Cement founder. His wife had herself lifted in one of those buckets in order to plant some of those goodies.
If you ever get a chance to go - the best time would be July (?) The rose garden will be in full bloom - and try to go on a Saturday - they have a fabulous fireworks display later in the evening. (And the gardens look amazing at night!)
Oh, Michaela, I can hear your voice saying that!
Michaela,
Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures! I have to agree with Dawn that your DDs look more like your sisters. :)
Going to have to add this as one of the places I want to go.. Maybe after I am retired because I dont think my kids and
DH would enjoy it as much as me lol.
Mel
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True - so send them whale watching for the day - or to Qualicum Beach (very warm water!) while you spend the day at the Gardens :-)
Michaela, what a gorgeous place!! Thanks for sharing it here! Now I gotta go see it in person.
Yep - really, it should be the gardener's mecca - one pilgrimige (spelling?) in a lifetime required.
I'll add it to my growing list of great gardens I want to see. Don't you wish The Hanging Gardens of Babylon still existed?
I wish they did. what do you think they were like? Not, surely, enormous spider plants, but maybe hanging platforms of gardens? Like a multilevel mall, except hanging and a garden?
I can only imagine that they probably blew away anything we have now, and that's quite a feat.
Yup. I found an old history book last night - ,maybe I'll look it up. Or maybe I'll google them - now you've got me imagining. Darn that imagination of mine! I could use a day without all those pesky thoughts all the time!
Thanks, Carrie
Hey, I can google with the best of them.