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Jerry Brown Travels Vancouver Island The Bouchard Gardens. The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. The gardens receive close to a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada due to their international renown. In 1909, when the limestone quarry was exhausted, Jennie set about turning it into the Sunken Garden, which was completed in 1921. They named their home "Benvenuto" ("welcome" in Italian), and began to receive visitors to their gardens. Ownership of The Gardens remains within the Butchart family; the owner and managing director since 2001 is the Butcharts' great-granddaughter Robin-Lee Clarke. USA Today and 10Best.com readers chose The Butchart Gardens (the only Canadian garden on the list) as one of the 10 Best Public Gardens (we're #3). In the National Geographic's 320-page Four Seasons of Travelbook, released October 15, 2013, The Butchart Gardens was named one of the Top 10 Magnificent Gardens. 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for The Dining Room Restaurant --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bouchard Gardens homepage http://www.butchartgardens.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Brown Travels YouTube videos links below. Street performers in Vancouver Canada https://youtu.be/4lzqi97q2aY Kailua Kona Hawaii budget travel https://youtu.be/1hQ8kVrAkd8 My wife Lori and myself sold our home and our business in 2006 and became the homeless millionaires. Our goal was to travel around the world and "living the good life". We have enjoy our world tour of 35 countries in the last 25 years. In 2012 we returned back to the big Island of Hawaii and bought a small cottage. We are now using Hawaii as our homebase as we travel to other countries 6 to 8 months a year. We have been asked by our friends to start this YouTube channel blog to share our experience and give some tips on budget travel. See our YouTube channel. http://youtu.be/_JHhX3paCDA To all of our friends around the world keep doing what you do it is appreciated by all. Thank you Jerry and Lori Brown