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From: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Botanical Gardens
Message-ID: <1218@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 01:52:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 01:52:18 1985
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <329@zaphod.UUCP> dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz) writes:
>
>A definite must is the Bouchard Gardens near Victoria on Vancouver
>Island,  British Columbia, Canada.  

Uh... I grew up in Victoria, and we always called it
Butchart Gardens.  Anyway, it is nice.  There're also 
quite pleasant evening concerts with all kinds of flood
lighting - summer only.

The VanDusen Garden in Vancouver is more sedate but it
does go quite a bit into more local flora.  Also, the
University of B.C. has various plantings 
around the campus plus an authentic Japanese garden done using
local plants (for Japanese gardens in Japan, the list of good
ones is rather long.  If anyone is interested, I can recommend
a few).
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