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	Butchart Family History Robert and Jennie
		Butchart pioneered advancements in cement as they introduced the first sacks of cements rather then the standard barrels that were common.
		Butchart solved the problem of the grim gray quarry walls by dangling over the side in a boson’s chair and carefully tucking ivy into any discernible pocket or crevice in the rock.
		Butchart would, on occasion, serve tea herself in such a manner that she was sometimes not recognized, and on one occasion received a tip from a visitor.
	www.victorialodging.com /butchart (749 words)

	The Butchart Gardens - Vancouver Island, British Columbia Flower & Garden Magazine - Find Articles
		The Japanese Garden, sculpted with cement forms that accent the slopes going downward to Butchart Cove from the house lawn, was the first of the formal gardens.
		Butchart was intrigued with the possibility of transforming the huge, ugly hole into a magnificent garden.
		Butchart collected exotic specimens of trees and flowers from all around the world, she realized the value of this special volunteer and allowed it prime position in her garden.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1082/is_n6_v38/ai_15972041 (923 words)

	The Victory Garden . Explore . Butchart Gardens \| PBS
		From the exquisite Sunken Garden to the harmonious Japanese Garden to the glorious Rose Garden, the gracious traditions of the past are still maintained in one of the loveliest corners in the world.
		Butchart exhausted the limestone in the quarry near their house, his enterprising wife, Jennie, conceived an unprecedented plan for refurbishing the bleak pit that resulted.
		The Butchart's exhausted limestone quarry was a grim pit prior to its reincarnation as a garden.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/victorygarden/explore/othergardens/butchart/index.html (784 words)

	Quickie in Vancouver: Butchart Gardens
		One of the oldest public gardens in North America, Butchart was founded in 1904 by Jennie Butchart, wife of an early Portland cement manufacturer.
		Butchart is not large, only fifty-five acres, meaning that at a steady clip one can see every corner and walk every path in about two hours.
		The Butchart Gardens, and Vancouver Island, are a must-see anytime you are in the Pacific Northwest.
	www.renegadegardener.com /content/111Butchart_Gardens.htm (925 words)

	Butchart Gardens, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
		The Butchart Gardens, tucked into a serene 50-acre country estate on the southeast corner of Vancouver Island, is a garden of earthly delights in every season.
		From the exquisite Sunken Garden to the charming Rose Garden, this 50-acre show-place still maintains the gracious traditions of the past, in one of the loveliest corners in the world.
		The Butchart Gardens are located in Brentwood Bay, 21 km north of the capital city of Victoria and 20 km south of the Vancouver - Victoria ferry terminal at Swartz Bay.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /attractions/?id=21 (446 words)

	Butchart Gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Butchart Gardens are located in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, a small village on the Saanich Peninsula that is part of Greater Victoria on Vancouver Island.
		Robert's wife, Jennie Butchart, first began working on the gardens in 1904, the same year he built a new factory and their house at Tod Inlet on Vancouver Island.
		Begun in 1905, the tranquil Japanese Garden is one of the oldest surviving areas of the estate with many of the original plantings still thriving, including Japanese maples, variegated dogwoods and Tibetan blue poppies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butchart_Gardens (733 words)

	Butchart Gardens: Former limestone quarry now a tangle of color (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The promise of summer is in the leafless canes of the rose garden.
		From the original garden, the Sunken Garden, Butchart designers expanded to the Japanese Garden, the Rose Garden, the Italian Garden and the Mediterranean Garden.
		Gardens are scattered among manicured lawn and reached by meandering walks.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/diversions/060521/garden.shtml (459 words)

	Butchart Japanese Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This tree, one of the hallmarks at both Butcharts and Hatley Japanese gardens, was purchased between 1909 and 1910 from a Yokahama Nursery.
		Throughout the two Japanese gardens is the sound of water, which had been created by Isaburo Kishida through the incorporation of rock lined water channels, which include cobblestones.
		The desire to blur the line between man and nature was shared by the two Edwardian families- the Butcharts and the Dunsmires- and the elderly landscaper from Yokahama, leading to the establishment of two wonderful Edwardian Japanese gardens.
	www.gardensvictoria.com /butchartjapan.htm (400 words)

	Butchart Gardens, Victoria, BC
		The Butchart Gardens were started in 1904 by Jennie Butchart as small flower beds outside the Butchart residence next to her husband Robert's cement factory twelve miles north of Victoria on Tod Inlet. The Butchart Gardens, as they became know, were first opened to the public in 1915 and have been a Victoria landmark ever since.
		The Butchart Gardens was further expanded in 1922 with the most formal of the gardens, the Italian Garden designed by Sam Maclure. Between 1929 to 1930, the Rose Garden was created, designed by a Seattle landscape architect named Butler Sturtevant.
		The Butchart Gardens have expanded and had new parts added since Jennie Butchart planted the first flower, but the original layout is very much as Jennie and the designers who worked with her envisioned. Peaceful ponds, cascading waterfalls, meandering paths, and of course unbelievable flowers make the Butchart Gardens a magical place.
	www.tourismvictoria.com /Content/EN/1063.asp (322 words)

	The Butchart Gardens
		Butchart Gardens is 50 acres of flowers, trees, shrubs and ponds.
		The last garden to be planted was the beautiful rose garden which was planted on the site of the old kitchen vegetable patch in 1929.
		Butchart stocked the lake in the Sunken Garden with trout.
	www.histori.ca /fairs/language.do?lang=en&target=/studentProject.do?id=13012 (851 words)

	Short Trips: Holiday magic is in full bloom at Butchart Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 100-year-old Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island just north of Victoria is noted worldwide primarily for its colorful, spring and summer display gardens, featuring hundreds of varieties of roses and 700 or so species of bedding plants.
		Butchart Gardens is about 16 miles north of Victoria on the central part of the Saanich Peninsula.
		In 1904 Jennie Butchart began to carve out the now famous gardens on land that was part of a limestone quarry that produced cement products for her entrepreneur husband.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /getaways/251887_shorttrips15.html?source=rss (1146 words)

	Butchart Gardens- Victoria, Canada - VirtualTourist.com
		Main attractions are the Sunken Garden (in the quarry), the Rose Garden, the Japanese Garden and the Italian Garden.
		Butchart Gardens are located some 25 minutes by car from downtown on the road to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal, where the ferries to Vancouver leave.
		Butchart Gardens: A whimsical study of a pig in the Gardens.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/Canada/Province_of_British_Columbia/Victoria-903124/Things_To_Do-Victoria-Butchart_Gardens-BR-1.html (1292 words)

	THE BUTCHART GARDENS
		The Butchart Gardens consist of 50 acres of expansive lawns, magnificent scenery and meandering paths.
		The roots of the Butchart family lie in the Forfar district of Scotland.
		As the gardens expanded, Robert supplied men from the cement plant to assist Jennie with her project.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/5086/57495 (530 words)

	Butchart Gardens
		Butchart wanting to beautify the quarry pit where the limestone was mined for the cement factory that her husband owned.
		Built in the turn of the century by the wife of a cement magnate, who wanted to beautiful the hole left from the limestone quarry.
		Part of the Italian garden and the original home of the Butchart's in the background.
	www.mikejones.us /canada028.htm (289 words)

	Butchart Gardens
		In 1904, the concept of The Butchart Gardens began with an effort to beautify a worked-out quarry site on the 130-acre estate of Mr.
		Butchart exhausted the limestone in the quarry near their house, his enterprising wife, Jenny, conceived an unprecedented plan for refurbishing the bleak pit that resulted.
		When we visited the Butchart Gardens, I was overwhelmed with their beauty.
	www.clvquilts.com /butchart.html (355 words)

	Rhododendron & Azalea News - Gardens
		Butchart exhausted the limestone in the quarry near their home, his enterprising wife, Jennie, conceived an unprecedented plan for refurbishing the bleak pit that resulted.
		Later an Italian Garden was created on the site of their former tennis court, and a fine Rose Garden replaced a large kitchen vegetable patch in 1929.
		Now the garden is 155 acres, the azaleas number a quarter of a million, and you can still walk into it from the airport.
	www.rhododendron.org /news/gardensv7n4.htm (1324 words)

	Butchart Gardens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The year 2004 is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of Butchart Gardens.
		Her vision is reflected in the almost Monet feeling of the weeping willows cascading over the pond in the sunken garden.
		The Japanese Garden was one of the first to be established (click here to see more on the historic Japanese Garden).
	www.gardensvictoria.com /butchart.htm (121 words)

	The Butchart Gardens
		The Butchart Gardens is fifty acres of absolute beauty.
		The gardens were begun in 1904 in an effort to beautify a worked-out limestone quarry site located on the 130-acre estate of Mr.
		Butchart, pioneers in the manufacture of Portland Cement in Canada, and has been a family commitment ever since.
	www.sd1new.net /butchart_gardens.htm (141 words)

	Victoria Butchart Gardens, Vancouver Island British Columbia (BC), Canada.
		The Butchart Gardens was left in natures hands for some time after Jennie Butchart and had become a wilderness garden until in 1946, Ian Ross, the grandson of Jennie Butchart and his wife, Ann Lee Ross, worked the gardens back to life and resurrected Butchart Gardens.
		At the Butchart Gardens the roses are marked with the country of origin for example...
		Butchart Gardens is always entertaining families with such events as the fireworks and stage shows in the summer months of July and August lighting up Victoria's skies and bringing laughter and smiles to all who experience the stellar garden events.
	www.victoriabc.ca /victoria/butchartgardens.htm (663 words)

	Butchart Gardens
		Jennie Butchart whose husband founded Portland Cement around the turn of the last century.
		Her home became a real showcase and by the 1920's they were receiving tens of thousands of visitors annually.
		The picture to the right is the Sunken Garden which had ponds and tiered landscaping along the ledges surrounding it.
	www.earthroaming.com /destinations/butchart.htm (227 words)

	Butchart Gardens
		Butchart’s energetic wife, Jennie, began importing topsoil from nearby farms and spread it on the bottom of the now abandoned quarry.
		The Butcharts traveled extensively, and the sights they experienced gave rise to the Japanese Garden, the Italian Garden (that replaced their tennis court), and the Rose Garden (that replaced the kitchen vegetable garden).
		Butchart Gardens is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with many special events, including a reunion of as many former employees of the past 100 years as they can find.
	romantictraveling.com /Butchart.htm (575 words)

	Historic Gardens to Visit in the Pacific Northwest
		Some are restorations of once-fine gardens that had fallen into disrepair and were brought back to their former glory.
		Today, the gardens are awash in flowers virtually year round, but there is a renewed interest in their history, too.
		It is a replica of a monastery garden, re-created from a 16th-century Dutch engraving.
	www.halcyon.com /tmend/gardens.htm (2730 words)

	Rhododendron & Azalea News - Gardens
		Butchart exhausted the limestone in the quarry near their home, his enterprising wife, Jennie, conceived an unprecedented plan for refurbishing the bleak pit that resulted.
		Later an Italian Garden was created on the site of their former tennis court, and a fine Rose Garden replaced a large kitchen vegetable patch in 1929.
		Now the garden is 155 acres, the azaleas number a quarter of a million, and you can still walk into it from the airport.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /brown/sciscan/rhododendrons/ran0404/gardens.htm (1312 words)

	Butchart Gardens Vancouver Island
		Butchart Gardens is about 13 miles north west of Victoria and a most impressive place.
		There are four main gardens, The Rose garden, the Sunken garden, the Italian and the Japanese garden.
		It is a magical place and hard to believe that the gardens were once a scene of devastation.
	www.worldrover.net /archive/0510OctNov/aButchart.htm (765 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel: Victoria's famed Butchart Gardens celebrates its 100th anniversary
		The Butchart Gardens celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, with new historical exhibits, a scarlet tulip named in Jennie's honor, and totems being created on the premises throughout the summer by First Nation carvers Charles Elliott and Doug Lafortune.
		When she and Kishida finished the Japanese garden, she added a formal Italian garden near the house, a pond in the shape of an eight-pointed star and bed upon bed of roses.
		Such gardens were something of a fad among ladies of Jennie's time, Clarke said, with small quiet ponds, stepping stones and benches on which to sit and ponder.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2001887058_nwwbutchart25.html (1699 words)

	Butchart Gardens, Victoria
		Here in 1904 Jenny Butchart, wife of a wealthy quarry owner, started to lay out a fragrant garden in abandoned limestone workings.
		Flourishing, not least because of the mild climate, the gardens have since been developed into a 20 ha (50-acre) horticultural tour de force without rival in Canada.
		The Italian garden, rose garden, Japanese garden and sunken garden are among the loveliest.
	www.planetware.com /victoria/butchart-gardens-cdn-bc-bcvcbg.htm (135 words)

	Butchart Gardens Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Find Articles
		Still, the sunken, Italian, Japanese and rose gardens are all stunning, if you can see past the parasols, tour bus groups and people's backsides as they bend over for a closer look at all the eye- popping flora.
		So perfect are these gardens that venturing off the designated trails and onto the putting-green-like grass seems like a guilt- ridden indulgence or an act of disregard, depending on whether you're the one watching or the one doing the venturing.
		You can reuse your ticket when the gardens are more quiet, less crowded (even a bit romantic) and strategically lit up (spectacular in places) for an entirely different experience.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_200308/ai_n11408538 (893 words)

	Also Nearby: Butchart Gardens @ nationalgeographic.com
		The greatest of all island gardens is a private venture, the wonderful displays of Butchart Gardens on the Saanich Peninsula to the north of Victoria.
		The gardens had a strictly utilitarian origin in the limestone quarry of Robert Pim Butchart, who had established a Portland cement plant at Tod Inlet.
		The huge popularity of Butchart Gardens means that visitors are unlikely to be able to savor them in solitary peace.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /destinations/Victoria/Butchart_Gardens.html (285 words)

	Butchart Garden - Canada - Gardens, Parks, Squares and Open Spaces - Presented by PlantsGalore.Com
		From the exquisite Sunken Garden to the charming Rose Garden, this show garden still maintains the gracious traditions of the past, in one of the loveliest corners in the world.
		We have visited Butchart at different seasons of the year and it is always changing.
		In the spring there are bulbs followed by annuals in the summer and mums and asters in the fall.
	www.plantsgalore.com /gardens/canada/Canada_Butchart.htm (251 words)

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