Gardens

Gather, harvest, and learn at one of the largest and most diverse community orchards in Canada. Once the backyard of local conservationist Rex Welland, the orchard is home to nearly 200 fruit trees and vines, including many rare varieties of apple, pear, plum, fig, grape, hazelnut, kiwi, paw paw, and more.
It was Rex’s vision to have his land loved, used, and stewarded by the public, and since 2013 we’ve been working with the Town of View Royal to turn the orchard into a community resource.

Visit our community pollinator garden, a place to learn, play, and celebrate the biodiversity of native plants and pollinator species! At the garden, you are on the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people, who have stewarded this area since time immemorial and whose relationship with the land continues to teach and inspire us to this day.

This garden, installed in 2022, was designed to contribute to regenerating the culturally significant Garry oak ecosystem that once thrived on YYJ lands. Watch the garden change throughout the season. In the summer, look out for bees and butterflies flitting from flower to flower. In the winter, tread softly as pollinators lay dormant among leaf debris, logs, and underground nests. View our garden guide to learn more about the native plant species you can find throughout the garden space. Enjoy!

The Government House gardens were originally designed in 1911 by G.K. Maclean, a landscape architect from Vancouver. Following the 1957 fire Robert Savery, a British-born and educated landscape architect, updated the design of the gardens in the style of traditional English gardens. The gardens flourished throughout the 1960s and 1970s when up to 17 gardeners worked on the property, including a superintendent who lived onsite and many of plants grown in an onsite greenhouse. In the 1980s, the number of staff gardeners fell to one.

The Abkhazi Garden was created in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, in 1946 by Prince and Princess Abkhazi. The garden is known as 'the garden that love built' and was developed by Prince Nicolas Abkhazi and Princess Marjorie Abkhazi over the decades that they owned the property on Fairfield Road.

With surprises at every turn, you’ll encounter poison dart frogs, tortoises, a large iguana, a flamingo, free flying tropical birds and more. Stroll through and marvel at our lush gardens including tropical flowers, carnivorous plants and fruits of the world. Your jungle adventure awaits.

Peaceful little garden with native plants and a waterfall.

In bloom since 1979, The Gardens at HCP (formerly Glendale Gardens & Woodland) includes over nine acres of gardens on a 103 acre site in Saanich, just outside Victoria, BC. These lovely gardens are set in a conservation park with nature trails, wetlands, and bird watching sites.

Victoria's mild pacific winters allow for year round gardening making any time of year the perfect time to visit. Tour the Winter Garden, the Japanese style Takata Garden, the Zen Garden, the Rhododendron Garden, of the Heather Gardens. Each turn through these meandering gardens will surprise you with the bountiful gardens that flourish in the Pacific Northwest.

The blend of horticulture and history — plus an iconic castle — have awed visitors for more than 100 years. Experience what's planted in the gardens, including a serene scape of pink cherry blossoms and vibrant rhododendrons, fragrant roses and gently burbling streams.

Stroll the manicured Italian garden, find tranquility in the Japanese garden and marvel at the scent in the rose garden, either on your own or as part of a guided tour.

The Butchart Gardens is a 121-year-old world famous 55-acre display garden located in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. Created by Jennie Butchart, and still privately owned and operated by the family, The Gardens was designated a National Historic Site of Canada, in 2004 for its one hundredth birthday.