I’m heading off to British Columbia today – and, of course, there will be gardens.

My first stop in Victoria is always the wonderful Horticultural Centre of the Pacific.  It’s a combination of display garden and horticultural college (Pacific Horticulture College) with myriad themed gardens. As you enter past the gift shop & nursery area, you come face to face with a lovely burst of color in the Hardy Plant Garden. 

It’s a little early for the Herb Garden, but I’ll wander through and see what’s new.

The Mediterranean garden looks better in the summer (below), but there’s always something blooming here too.

The Birds, Bees & Butterflies Garden does a lovely job of attracting them all, 

but I love to see them on tender plants I never get to see here, like the orange ball tree (Buddleia globosa).  

And there are always a few gorgeous Pacific Coast Hybrid irises around as well. 
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There’s a Winter Garden that entertains visitors from autumn to early spring and a Heather Garden filled with all manner of Erica and Calluna species.  And I’m hoping the Native Wildflower Garden will have lots of blue camas (Camassia quamash) and fawn lilies (Erythronium oreganum) in bloom.

But the real draw in spring is the Hosta & Rhododendron Garden, with a fabulously colourful array of azaleas and rhodos in a beautiful setting.

And of course I always make it over to the far side, where the Takata Japanese Garden has a number of beautiful features, such as the dry stream bed…

the pond with the zigzag bridge…

and the serene Zen Garden. 

Visitors to Victoria often stop at Butchart Gardens, and I go there myself whenever I have the time, because they’re second to none as a large-scale display garden.  But the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific is my idea of a little treasure