Story Title: Butchart Gardens
Episode: Four
TX Date: 24th September 2011
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane  

The Butchart Gardens is one of the world's premier floral show gardens. This abandoned limestone quarry was transformed into the dramatic Sunken Garden. Through successive generations of the Butchart family, The Gardens has retained much of its original design, and continues the Victorian tradition of seasonally changing outstanding floral displays.

Some facts on Butchart

• Each year over 1,000,000 bedding plants in some 700 varieties are used throughout the Gardens to ensure uninterrupted bloom from March through October.
• Close to a million people visit the gardens each year.
• The Butchart Gardens remains a family business and has grown to become a premier West Coast display garden, while maintaining the gracious traditions of the past.

For more great stories on Butchart Garden make sure you watch The Gurus Explore in January 2012.