Week 171 - Buchart Gardens Photo Collection - 11-22-2009

Benvenuto,

In Italian, it means Welcome and it is the name that the Butcharts choose for their estate. Welcome to The Butchart Gardens. Robert Pim Butchart moved his family from Ontario, Canada to Vancouver Island in 1904. He had manufactured Portland cement in Ontario and moved to Tod Inlet and purchased his estate, as it was rich in limestone, a vital component of the cement.

When all the limestone had been quarried, all that remained was a empty pit. Robert's wife, Jennie began planning to beautify the 55 acres of their estate. Tons of top soil were brought in and under her supervision, a garden was planted. The result of the last 100 years is world renown and unbelievably colorful, The Butchart Gardens.

"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith??" Matthew 7:17

No additional commentary is needed, the beauty speaks for itself.

Love, Pete and Ellen

Photos from Jul 2008