BUTCHART GARDENS & Afternoon Tea, Victoria BC | Exploring the Botanical Gardens
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2022
- The Butchart Gardens are located in Victoria, BC and are one of the most beautiful attractions in the area. We were lucky enough to get a tea time for afternoon tea at the Dining Room and enjoyed the amazing gardens. In this video I share our experience at tea and exploring the gardens - and I hope it can be helpful if you're planning your own trip to Victoria!
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From: www.butchartgardens.com/our-s...
It all began with one woman’s vision and passion. With a former limestone quarry for her backyard, Jennie Butchart envisioned landscaping a sunken garden in its place, transforming the property for her family-and visitors-for generations to come.
Thanks for stopping by! Have you been to afternoon tea before? Which of the cute tea sandwiches or treats would be your favourite?
That garden is beautiful
Such an amazing experience! Great quality video and sound!
Thanks very much!
What a beautiful place. 50 gardeners to take care of this place, that's amazing. I love the afternoon tea time. What a great break and special experience
Yeah it was a beautiful garden - and I couldn't imagine taking care of all those flower beds!
I love visiting gardens and this would be one I would love to enjoy. I love how it’s designed. And omg those tea towers are delightful! I love how it’s setup. What a great way to spend an afternoon!
It was a great set up and you could easily spend a few hours there exploring. The tea towers were awesome!
Gorgeous place with awesome food! Definitely a worthwhile visit!
Yes highly recommend 🙌
Wow, these gardens are sooo beautiful! Amazing what impact one person’s vision can have..such a cool story behind these gardens, thanks for sharing that.
Everything at tea time looked delicious and so well presented 🥰💕
It was a great tea experience. We really enjoyed the gardens too - it was so peaceful and nice to go for a walk after that food!
Nice place beautiful garden and I like afternoon tea looks so delicious 😋
Thanks!
Afternoon tea looks so fun and tasty. 😋 And those gardens look like a perfect place to get some beautiful pictures. Adding these gardens to our list!
It was a lovely experience. I'd definitely recommend a visit there 👍
Great video guys, these gardens looked amazing. I love a good afternoon tea and this looked wonderful.
For taking us along.
Thank you! It was such a fun experience, and all that food has us covered for tea time for a while!!
Very beautiful✨
Just watched this lovely video,new fan and have a lovely week ahead and stay safe debs xx 💃 💃....
Thanks so much for watching!
Omg, this looks so amazing! The gardens are gorgeous and I so love fancy afternoon teas! At first, I was like why is it so expensive, but I definitely understand now. Looks worth it for all the unique flavors you get to try.
Yes it was definitely worth it in the end, but not something we would do all the time. It was a nice treat to round out our experience there.
What a beautiful garden, very well maintained, I would come there every weekend. Afternoon tea seems to be a high tea with all the eatables.
Yes the gardens would be a very peaceful spot to do a nice weekly visit.
So very atmospheric and picturesque place.
Absolutely stunning and very beautiful sceneries. Fantastic upload friend.
Thanks very much! We loved the gardens there
What a beautiful day at Buchart gardens! It’s been too long since we had afternoon tea, I love that you guys dived straight into the scones first! 😋 I’m always straight to the cucumber sandwiches to start, then scones with tea, then mini cakes and champagne to top it all off! Dessert wine sounds lovely too 🍷
Love a tranquil Japanese garden, they’re so perfectly manicured 🪴
The Japanese garden was so peaceful!! I loved the afternoon tea, but there really was way too much food. All of it was so good though - I think the scone was my favourite part!
I was just there! So cool! :)
I remember visiting Butchart Gardens when I visited Vancouver. Such a beautiful place but sadly weren't able to do the afternoon tea. But the gardens are beautiful. I enjoyed walking out there. Thank you for sharing.
It's a beautiful place - I really loved the atmosphere and all the variations of flowers and plants.
Absolutely loved this video. My wife and I visited Butchart Gardens as an cruise ship excursion. We were on an Alaska cruise on the Celebrity Solstice a few years ago, was also our first cruise. The last stop was at Victoria, before heading back to Seattle. The excursion was to a butterfly garden before heading to Butchart Gardens. Since the ship was late arriving in port and some custom issues. Then, we had a bus issue at the butterfly garden, so we didn’t get to Butchart Gardens until about sunset. Obviously, not the best time to start a garden tour. Since I take gardening very seriously, my backyard looks like a resort in the summer, I was very, very disappointed. So, your video was the first time that I have really seen the gardens the way I would have preferred. Thanks for sharing. Your presentation is excellent! Thanks.
Thank you! An Alaskan cruise is an itinerary I'd love to do one day. Victoria is a beautiful city it's too bad you had so many issues getting in that it impacted your day. The gardens are so beautiful, and even on the overcast day we had, it was still super pretty there.
Nice job on this video. I would love to visit the gardens one day. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! We had a great time.
Oh my gosh! This day looks so idillic and is right up my alley haha. Wow - 55 acres of land. That’s amazing! It’s so stunning and so well kept. Love that some of the teas are made from the gardens too. I’ve never seen alcohol paired with the tea and food like that, what a cool experience guys!
Yes it's such a fun attraction and we really love the afternoon tea element of it
Butchart Gardens has been on my list foreevverrr now! I still need to make it out to Victoria. You made me want to go there even more! I didn't realize that you could also have afternoon tea there. Now that's on my list, too!
We were never really planning to go to BC, but because of the pandemic it just worked out for us to go - and we are so glad because we LOVED it there. I would definitely recommend the afternoon tea!
You are cool 😎
Wow thats a lot to eat
55 acres, that's a whole lot! One woman's vision, hollaa! 😁 Yummm, English trifle! You had us at "scone and accompanying alcohol"! Wayne likes the look of that sausage roll! April agrees, dessert is the best course! So cool, the gardens on the old tennis courts! Favorite flower at 10:17 😍
It was so pretty there! We really enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere - and of course all the food too!! 😂
It looks idyllic, and I was living vicariously through you eating all those delicious snacks haha.
It was so pretty. And oh man... so much food. Definitely a fun, and filling experience 🙌
I have never had British style afternoon tea before ( excluding my friend's bridal shower lol ), would love to try one day! It looks like a calorie bomb, I am dieting currently and it pains me greatly to see such delicious food with some champagne! The botanical gardens are looking great as well!
Oh yeah you definitely can't be dieting and go for tea there there is so much delicious food 🤣
From a rock quarry to this 😍 wow, so incredible! We haven't had an afternoon tea experience like this before, but after watching this, I think we need to try it 😁 of course I would love getting dessert first! That is so cool that the tea is grown in the gardens.
Wait ..there is a whole plate of desserts 😍 ok we definitely need to do this!
Haha yes there was SO. MUCH. FOOD. I think we could have easily split 1 tower, but that's a "per person" amount apparently. It was a great garden to explore too so we could walk off all the food ;)
@@TheAverageTourist hahaha and it added to the experience in the video to have 2!
Absolutely beautiful! I just came across your channel. I love the information and places you share. May I ask what accommodation you stayed at in Victoria?
Thanks so much we actually stayed in 2 different hotels the 1st night we stayed at the Z hotel and the 2nd night I think we stayed at the Marriott
Thanks for this! Were you there in May?
Thanks for watching. It was during September 2021
How long would you recommend for the gardens and the tea? We are short for time the day we are going since we are only planning on 2 hours due to the tour bus schedule, but may be able to stretch it to 3 hours.
The tea on it's own took over an hour, so I'd recommend at least 3 hours - I think we were there for about 4 hours.
I Love 💘 that place
I wanna be there
Do you know what is the best time of the year to go
I'm considering to visit in August,,, and also I wanna know the name of the airport we can get ✈🌺🌷🍁💐 Thank you very much
I think August would be a great time. You can fly to Victoria International Airport.
When is the best time to visit?
Summer time is the most popular time to go, but personally I liked when we went at the beginning of September. It wasn't as busy and we had perfect weather.