The 9 Most Luxurious Gardens Around the World

#6 The Butchart Gardens, British Columbia

A leading tourist attraction on Vancouver Island, The Butchart Gardens is a National Historic Site of Canada. While the gardens are indeed amongst the most luxurious in the world, the story of their origin is intriguing, as the location was once a cement quarry. When it closed in 1904, Jennie Butchart, the wife of Portland Cement-manufacturer Robert Pim Butchart, decided to transform the then barren land starting with a massive sunken garden in the quarry. Later what had once been tennis courts were transformed into an Italian garden, and the once productive vegetable garden became a huge rose garden.