Butchart Garden Stairway
by John Rogers on Jun.08, 2009, under Architecture, Canada, HDR, Travel
I want my garden to look like this! Around 100 years ago Jennie Butchart, the wife of a Portland Cement magnate, decided to turn their exhausted quarry pit into a sunken garden. The original garden was completed in 1921 Today, over a million bedding plants a year are used throughout the gardens and over a million visitors visit Butchart Gardens annually. It’s well worth the trip.
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Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory | Visualist Images Photography, Austin Texas
July 24th, 2009 on 3:39 pm[...] by John Rogers on Jul.24, 2009, under Oklahoma, Travel In downtown Oklahoma City there is another wonderful botanical garden, the Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory & Myriad Botanical Gardens. The first image was taken inside the 220 foot long Crystal Bridge that sits in the middle of the 17 acre botanical gardens. You can see the end of the Crystal Bridge in the second image taken from the gardens. (If you like beautiful gardens, also check out my Butchart Garden blog.) [...]
June 22nd, 2009 on 10:31 am
[...] Although this stair is also surrounded by flowers, it is pretty much the polar opposite of the Butchart Gardens stairway image I posted a few weeks ago. Looking thru my archives I’ve noticed that I very rarely shoot a [...]