
Victoria Mother’s Day Garden Tour

Victoria Mother’s Day Garden Tour
We (my wife, mom and I) spent Saturday at the 27th Annual Victoria Mother’s Day Garden Tour, a benefit for the Victoria Conservatory of Music. The weather was absolutely perfect with warm spring air and lots of sun. We visited about seven gardens ranging from small country gardens with thousands of plants intermingled together to a large oceanfront estate that was almost “too much and too perfect”. Victoria Conservatory of Music students were providing live music at many of the gardens, a nice touch. Something for everyone!
My favourite gardens tended to be the ones where the homeowners did most of the planting and gardening chores. They had a life to them that a garden designed by an “outsider” just doesn’t have. More of a personal touch perhaps. With the sunny weather and visiting these gardens around midday I didn’t shoot a huge amount of images but did shoot some close-ups of garden ornaments, the odd flower and a selection of images for garden ideas as we are beginning to plan our “next garden”. All in all, a wonderful day and for a good benefit.

Musical Frogs, Victoria Mother’s Day Garden Tour