Talk:Butchart Gardens

AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL
It is simply spectacular! These people work so hard to maintain the garden's beauty. There is not a single weed in the garden. It is something you just have to see at some point in your life. I love the gardens so much they are absolutely beautiful! ❤️

Copyright concerns
A large portion of this text is taken from &[ which is listed as under copyright.  Rewrite needed.  See my effort on [[User:WBardwin/Butchart Gardens]]  WBardwin 17:07, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I, too was concerned, after skimming the article, that it sounded like it was taken from a tourism brochure. I did a quick search on Google for some of the least-encyclopedic phrases and got no hits other than Wikipedia mirror sites. WBardwin seems to have done better homework than I. I did remove the following one-sentence paragraph, since it seemed to me to read a bit too much like a tourist brochure:
 * For over a century, people from all places of the world visiting Vancouver Island in British Columbia have been delighted to walk among the gardens planted by the enterprising Mrs. Butchart.
 * The rest of the article needs rewrite, since it's full of the same sort of thing, but the rest is worked in a bit more deeply and is going to be harder to excise than simply deleting a sentence. &mdash;CKA3KA (Skazka) 19:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

I've now done a bit of copyediting of this article. I do have a question for those who know more about the gardens and the family than I. The original read as follows: Today, the residence contains a restaurant in the Dining Room; offices and rooms are still used for personal family entertaining.

Nowadays, The Butchart Gardens is still a family business and has grown to become a premier West Coast display garden, while maintaining the traditions of its past.

I have changed it to read as follows: Today the residence contains a restaurant in the dining room. The Butchart family, which still operates the gardens as a family business, uses some of the rooms as offices and some for personal family entertaining. Not exactly poetry, I'll admit, but my real question is whether I've done any violence to the facts. The original text lead me to believe that the Butchart family are, indeed, the ones currently using the rooms for offices and personal entertaining, and I felt comfortable enough with that that I went ahead and made the change in order to get rid of the "a premier West Coast display garden, while maintaining the traditions of its past" copy. But you can see how I've made a little bit of an assumption in doing so.

If you think I've made the text inaccurate, please fix it, of course; but I ask that you do so not by reverting it, but by rewriting it. If my change is in error, the reason is that the original was unclear as it was. Thanks. &mdash;CKA3KA (Skazka) 07:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How do you properly pronounce Butchart? Our tour guide said Butch'-art, but many others say Bu'-shart.

There has been a great deal of discussion as to the correct pronunciation of the family name. As Robert Pim Butchart's forefathers came from the Montrose area of the East of Scotland there is no reason to think that there might be a French pronunciation to the surname 'Butchart'. The family, who emigrated from Scotland to Owen Sound, Ontario in the early 1800's, referred to the family name as Butch - as in butcher, and Art - as in art. 'Bouchard' is another family name - doubtless with a French connection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harry Elias (talk • contribs) 22:12, 7 January 2009 (UTC)