User:WBardwin/Butchart Gardens
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Butchart Gardens is a privately owned and maintained botanical garden located at Tod Inlet, twelve miles north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It was created on property used by Robert Pim Butchart, of Ontario, Canada, as a limestone quarry for his manufacture of Portland cement. Butchart Gardens has established an international reputation for its year round display of flowering plants. Plantings beds and groups of trees are carefully divided with ponds, cascading waterfalls, and meandering paths. Now internationally known, the Gardens are visited by well over a million people each year.