What happens when a once-profitable quarry is left with a huge empty pit beside a family estate? For Jennie Butchart, the answer was not to leave it behind.
Instead, she imagined something completely different. The exhausted limestone site on Vancouver Island would become a garden filled with plants, colour and carefully designed landscapes. Turning that idea into reality required tons of topsoil, transported by horse and cart, along with years of work, as per a report by The Butchart Gardens and Horticulture Magazine.
