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Abkhazi Garden Review
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Abkhazi Garden
Zoos / Aquariums, Victoria
Fodor's Review:
Called "the garden that love built," this once-private garden is as fascinating for its history as for its innovative design. Seeds for the 1-acre residential garden were planted, figuratively, in Paris in the 1920s, when Englishwoman Peggy Pemberton-Carter met exiled Georgian Prince Nicholas Abkhazi. Separate World War II internment camps (his in Germany, hers near Shanghai) interrupted their romance, but they reunited and married in Victoria in 1946. They spent the next 40 years together cultivating their garden. Rescued from developers and now operated by the Land Conservancy of British Columbia, the Zen-like 1-acre site is recognized as one of Canada's most significant gardens and a leading example of West Coast horticultural design, resplendent with native Garry Oak trees, Japanese maples, and mature rhododendrons. The tearoom, in the sitting parlor of the modest, modernist home, serves lunch and afternoon tea. Watch for evening concerts in the garden.
INFO
- Address: 1964 Fairfield Rd., Fairfield, Victoria, British Columbia
- Phone: 250/598-8096
- Web site
- Cost: C$10
- Open: Mar.-Sept., daily 11-5
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