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Garden Adventures

Explore Vancouver Island gardens year-round. Our guided and narrated tours are of glorious private and public gardens with many points of interest en-route. Unique to our tours are the opportunities to ask questions and speak to local gardeners.

Victoria Garden Tour

Hatley Park Garden with the famous turn-of-the century Hatley Castle as its backdrop, this baronial estate features a Japanese garden, a formal Italian garden with many original urns and statues and a marvelous rose collection. Stroll by a genuine bog garden and experience the serene water, fowl and flora

Saxe Point Park/Point Ellice House offers acres of waterfront with towering fir trees and dazzling displays of perennials and shrubs that cannot grow anywhere else in Canada. Travel back in time to experience an authentic restored Victorian garden, with rambling roses, fragrant Jasmine and English Hawthorn. Relax and enjoy the pristine beauty sipping afternoon tea. Includes a tour of Point Ellice House and tea.

Horticulture Center of the Pacific features a Canadian dahlia test garden, an extensive perennial collection, an old rose collection and beautiful winter gardens. 

Ravenhill Herb Farm is an internationally renowned working garden featuring fragrant herbs, artistically combined with flowers and vegetables. Delight in the splendor of this pastoral setting overlooking the beautiful Saanich inlet.

Government House Gardens was originally developed in the 1850's. Stroll through a sunken Edwardian styled rose garden, an English country garden, lavish annual and perennial borders all within the shadow of ancient ornamental trees and shrubs. A pond ringed by lovely aquatic plants and an Arboretum featuring unique horticultural gifts from around the world.