These Royal Botanical Gardens pictures were taken before the garden was closed for extensive renovations. The magic of this garden is its sunken setting. Like Butchart, one comes to the garden at the elevated entrance so surveys the whole garden. Then one enters down into its magical paths where flowers, benches, and collections of plants draw one's attention. RBG's strength was its spring time plantings. It treated the garden as a canvas to be painted using tulips.
I'm going to check it out today. I'll see a completely new 'garden' in this special setting - a new look, new design, new plantings, new building, new everything. Stay tuned.
The RBG arboretum is nearby and has an extensive collection of spring flowering trees. I hope you have a chance to visit by the weekend. While our spring is glorious, it seems to be quite short.
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