Fall in the Butchart Gardens,
is a visual feast.
As tree leaves turn,
flowers burn,
triumphant,
in their in their fall finale.
An autumnal pageant,
before winter sleep.
Cheers to you from the Butchart Gardens in Victoria Canada~
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So beautiful!
So vibrant!! Beautiful garden 😊😊😊
Isn’t it lovely. I have now visited in every season except spring. Can you imagine the garden in spring!
Very much! The garden would be even more beautiful in spring isn’t it 😊😊
I think so, yes!
Beautiful gardens! So lucky to see these in person! 🙂
They are pretty special and I am happy you enjoyed them~
Very vibrant colors. It’s like nature roars up one more time before the winter.
I have seen this phenomona multiplied the further north you go. Alaska has huge blooms as if they protesting the coming winter~
Simply stunning.
It is a genius garden. So pleased you enjoyed~
Sure did. 🙂
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My favorite of all gardens and in my province at that ☺️
You lucky Canadian ducky!
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I definitely am to be so close to it ☺️
Indeed. You can get a season pass and hang out there!
Wow! I can smell the flowers from here. And feel the carpet of green grass growing under my feet. 🙂 Beautiful. I think that is a place we visited too, one time when I was up there in Can. with my family. I was a child then, when on our vacation trip up in Victoria. I think I remember a lot of tulips in the garden, too. Canada is such a environmentally conscientious country, always with a lot of green foliage and beautifully kept grounds.
I relate to everything you are saying. I first visited in the summer when I was 14. I have yet to see it in the spring. Memories of these gardens definitely stay with you! Cheers to you Joyce and thanks for stopping by~
These pictures are absolutely breathtaking, I can’t stop looking at them; they just fill my soul with happiness!
Awww, honored. Your comment filled my soul. Thank you~ <3
Simply stunning!!!
Awww, thank you Dorinda~ <3
Thank YOU!! Another lovely trip with you is better than anything! <3
I love my blogger friends!
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And we love you!!
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Prettier then I remember when I was there in1964 ! 😉
This is It! No matter how long ago it was, we all remember the first time we were here, For me it was 1970~ <3
What a stunning place!!! It’s so lush. Gorgeous pictures.
It gets so much rain and has such rich soil. The rain forests are amazing. I wish we could import the rain to Southern California!
Oh I know! They are so dry and the forests are so bad down there. We are expecting rain this week though! Unfortunately it may be during my tour of the Port of Oakland. Dave and I got some tix and they take you out on a boat and tour the port. Kinda cool!
I can’t wait to see your photos. You would do even fog and drizzle beautifully. Please send some here!
Thanks Cindy. :)))
I’ve been to these beautiful gardens in summer, and I see in fall it is equally as vibrant. Lovely tour and outstanding photos, Cindy.
Awww, so appreciated. Thank you & cheers too~
So beautiful
Yes, it seems magical, like Alice in a happy wonderland~
Thank you for your continuing obsession seeking what is valuable to the soul and beautuful, then skilfully photographing and sending it to us. Please don’t seek treatment.
What a lovely and kind comment. I want to find the peace and beauty everyday and share it because we need all desperately need peace and beauty. Thank you for knowing this my friend~ <3
Awesome …:-)
Honored my friend~ 🌻
Enchanting, Cindy – wonderfoul photos x
So kind and so encouraging. Thank you~
Beautiful flowers and photos, Cindy. The dahlias… were my mother’s favorite flower to grow — she had over 65 varieties! She would have loved this garden.
The dahlias here were especially lovely. They had so many and they had the plate ones that are huge with many varied hues in one flower. Truly lovely. I grew dahlias for a couple of seasons but gave up. They are so beautiful, but quite labor intensive, as they must be continually dead-headed to keep them blooming. Your mother must have been an exceptional gardener~
She was. In Michigan the dahlia bulbs had to be dug up, divided, wrapped, and stored in the cellar over the winter. Having two strong sons helped.
That is impressive and I bet her gardens were gorgeous! 🌸🌸🌸
A breath of fresh air for someone confined with the creeping cruds of a cold! Thank you!
So pleased they brought their cheer and I hope that creepy cold crawls away!
So pretty, and tranquil. 🙂
Yes, the gifts of a well grown garden!
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Lovely photos of the Butchart Gardens…thank you for sharing these, Cindy!
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Thank you more for your kindness my friend~ <3
This is so beautiful…. I dint know nature was this beautiful till I opened this post..
Your comment made me smile. I am so pleased to meet you!
Pleased that a blog like this is extant….will check your previous works, my eyes must be itching for more
Be well my friend and thank you!
U ever welcome
I have never been there in the fall but it as gorgeous as in the spring. Your photos are so much better than those I took. Now I want to go back again. 🙂
Spring is the only season in which I haven’t visited. It must be glorious in the spring since it is in every other season. I think you should go back! <3
These flowers are so pretty. 🙂
Happy week to you dear Ranu~ <3
Wonderful garden, thanks for bringing it to me!
Thank you more for appreciating it~
What a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thank you more for your thoughtful appreciation & cheers to you~
Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!
Alison
Just a hop and a skip away from you Alison~ <3
Are you coming to Van?
We are back at The Holler now. We miss each other by inches…..
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One day we will meet in person!
Cindy, those are sensational photos. Thanks for sharing. I’ve never seen the place but it is on my list now.
Leslie
Oh good. You will be happy when you visit~ <3
Me too.
Leslie
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Ah, those are beautiful photos, and bring back some great memories for me – I visited there in 2007 and was blown away by the range of different garden styles within the once place. Thanks for sharing 😀
Everyone remembers the year in which they visited, which tells you how special the place is~ 💐💐
An amazing visual treat!!
Thank you so much! Very please you enjoyed and cheers to you~
Whoa !!!! Oh my gosh ! That’s amazing ! ( sorry for the exclamation marks, ha ha ! )
I love exclamation marks from you!!
I’m so glad you got to go to the gardens! Woohoo 🙂 I adore it there ~ and the fireworks, did you see the fireworks display at night? HUGS
No I have not. You see, the more I see, the more I learn I need to see!!!
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Beautiful gardening there. Nice. Hugs Joe
Merci beaucoup~
I love the backstory of this garden. Lovely photos, Cindy. Autumn is a delightful time to visit Buchart. I hope you had high tea. Hugs and Happy Canadian Thanksgiving. Life is amazing.
Happy TG to you Rebecca and I think the history is pretty amazing too. Shows you what love of beauty can do.
What an extraordinary place. It looks like a lot of work goes into it. 🙂
I think an incredible amount. Deadheading alone would be so labor intensive.
Oh yes. I remember being deadheaded by a bottle of rum. 😀
Tsk, tsk Graham. I never do that. Unless of course I am baking,
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I was hot too. 🙂
Laughing…….
Your photos and the gardens are gorgeous.
Ah, thank you my friend and cheers to you~ <3
I went there with my mom as a kid. It used to be a landfill or quarry prior to being a garden…
Yes, a quarry. Amazing how many bloggers went there as children and remember it still. Wonderful really~
Wow for a paradise garden, so amazing beautiful Cindy 🙂
It is just so lush and verdant and full of color, so different than poor drought ridden Southern California~
Also much different from Spain now. Here is much yellow, not because of the autumn, but because of dry weather. We have had rain, but not enough to keep anything green.
Spain and Portugal looked exactly the same to me as home. The sad effects of not enough rain.
Lovely garden! The picture of the pond is beautiful!
I love the peace created by ponds. So glad you noticed & cheers to you~
Wow! Thanks for sharing these wonderful images.
Thank you more for appreciating them!
Your photo series is absolutely stunning. I’ve spent a lot of time in BC and never found my way to Butchart Garden, I need to move it higher on my bucket list.
Thank you very much. I highly recommend it. I suspect you will find yourself returning. I would if I lived in Seattle.
Sehr stimmungsvolle Bilder Cindy. Danke fürs zeigen…
Sie sind eine schone Person Ernst! Seien Sie gut mein Freund~
Love the lush beauty, photos and poetry!
I love your kindness and your poetry! <3
Aw, thank you! Likewise, and I Love your eye for the beauty of our world! Thank you so much for sharing!
So appreciated~ 🌸🌸
Truly gorgeous. What an incredible place.
Started with a woman wanting to make a mining quarry beautiful. She succeeded!
This is magic, this is Heaven!
British Columbia is this way! So glad you enjoyed my friend <2
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What a gorgeous place…a heaven for me! As I cannot visit myself I am ever so grateful you took me there!
It is so much nicer to have you along! <3
This is a beautiful and awesome place! Right now I would love to be wandering in it soaking up the natural beauty and the radiant colours…fantastic! 🙂
I wish I could beem over and join you!
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You take the most amazing vacations. I wish I was a little fly on the wall that followed you everywhere.
I wish we could meet up there, but I so appreciate traveling with you virtually. You make the experience richer~
Those pics are beautiful!!!
Very lovely!
Thank you my friend and cheers to you~ 🌸 🌸
My pleasure! Thank you.,😄
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