Japanese Garden at Butchart Gardens
Butchart Gardens, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, started its life as a private garden 100 years ago near a quarry that expanded into a huge garden that is divided up into smaller gardens: Italian, Japanese, Mediterranean, Sunken, Bog, Rose, etc. It's pretty spectacular, the plants being evenly divided between annuals and perennials. They grow their own, but to my mild disappointment, it's not a botanical garden, i.e., they're not interested in collecting rare and interesting specimens. It's more a display garden, designed to overawe with its lushness and color. Which you can do with perfectly ordinary cultivars of popular plants such as the "Pacific Giants" delphiniums or your standard-issue pelargoniums (of which there were too many for my taste).
Nevertheless, I shot a good 7 rolls of film there, and as with the rest of the trip, the shots I took in deep shade turned out better than the ones in full sun.
So for this entry, I'm going to .
Japanese Garden
Pond in Japanese Garden
Japanese Garden
Bridge in Japanese Garden
Japanese Maple with Moss
Mountain Laurel
This photo is here to show that not all of my photos were horribly overexposed. And because it was in the Japanese Garden.
Nevertheless, I shot a good 7 rolls of film there, and as with the rest of the trip, the shots I took in deep shade turned out better than the ones in full sun.
So for this entry, I'm going to .
Japanese Garden
Pond in Japanese Garden
Japanese Garden
Bridge in Japanese Garden
Japanese Maple with Moss
Mountain Laurel
This photo is here to show that not all of my photos were horribly overexposed. And because it was in the Japanese Garden.