The gardens are fully handicap accessible, so if your hubby is not able to walk he can still enjoy the sights. June in the PNW is a very unstable month.......sometimes we can have wonderful weather characteristic of early summer but more often, June is just an extension of a seemingly endless cold and wet spring. Provided the weather cooperates at least marginally, you will see a great late spring show in June - rhodies and azaleas, early perennials like iris and peonies and Butchart's always wonderful display of bedded out annuals. One can usually plan on great weather in September......that month is often the best weather of the entire year around here and the gardens look stunning then too. If you visit the garden's website, you can investigate what the garden offers in all 5 seasons (Christmas is considered a season all on its own!). Here is a link that might be useful: Butchart's - 5 season virtual tour

Thank you for the compliments. I deleted photos with too many people in them. There were quite a few there. About a dozen tour buses too. They have umbrellas available in several locations, there was a boy with a wheelbarrow of them right in the parking lot. We didn't need them though, it only dripped under the trees while we were there. Since I sell gifts wholesale for a living, I like their gift shop :) I just wish I could have bought at Thomas Hobb's nursery and brought plants home.

Thanks for the beautiful picture. I've always wanted to visit there.

I live in Victoria and we get season's passes every year. Spring is my favorite time at the Gardens. During the summer, they have fireworks every Saturday night during July & August. These are not just your average fireworks either....well worth seeing. Even in this day and age, we take a blanket and picnic dinner and put it down in the fireworks viewing area, and then putter around throughout the gardens until evening. Never lost anything. Their high tea in the dining room is very nice too. It's definitely a "must see" when visiting Victoria. During Christmas season, they have scenes representing the 12 days of Christmas song that are hidden within the garden and it is fun to find them all and they add a skating rink. Very pretty then too.