Discover our popular flowers and plants that can be seen throughout the year.
The Butchart Gardens is climatic zone 8 a. Our general plant fertilizer is 8-2-3 with 3% iron.
For more information, download our off-season and peak-season plant and flower guides.
What’s Currently in Bloom
Begonia semperflorens
Fibrous or Waxleaf begonia
Begonia semperflorens
Summer annual
Repetitive plantings
Various colours
Annual
Fuchsia
Fuchsia
Deciduous shrub
Over a 100 varieties bloom from late spring into fall
Hardy shrubs and tender plants with pendulous flowers that attract hummingbirds
Shrub
Impatiens
Impatiens
Summer annual
Vibrant colours
Repetitive plantings
Annual
Rosa
‘Crimson Showers’ (red) and ‘Dorothy Perkins’ (pink)Climbing Rose
Rosa
Blooms during summer along the arbours on the main path
Perennial
Plant Gallery
Abeliophyllum distichum
White forsythia
Abeliophyllum distichum
Deciduous shrub with fragrant white blossoms in winter
Found near the Sequoias
Shrub
Abutilon
‘Tiger Eye’Parlor maple or Flowering maple
Abutilon
Blooms in summer
Perennial
Acanthus spinosus
Bear’s breeches
Acanthus spinosus
Blooms in summer
Located along perennial borders
Perennial
Acer palmatum
Lace leaf Japanese maple
Acer palmatum
Deciduous tree
Excellent landscape structure
Notable fall colour
Tree
Allium giganteum
Ornamental onion
Allium giganteum
Blooms late spring
Perennial
Allium siculum syn. Nectaroscordum siculum
Mediterranean bells
Allium siculum syn. Nectaroscordum siculum
Perennial bulb blooms mid spring
Attractive to honeybees
Perennial
Alocasia
‘Sarian’Elephant’s ear
Alocasia
Foliage plant
Used in container plantings
Perennial
Alternanthera dentata
Alternanthera dentata
Summer annual
Grown as accent plant in flower beds throughout gardens
Annual