Bird Watching and the Tofino Garden Scene
Box 990 • Tofino, BC
(250) 725-2520 • info@justbirding.com
Culture, garden, nature
1084 Pacific Rim Hwy, Box 886 • Tofino, BC
(250) 725-1220
Fax (250)725-2435
E-mail: info@tbgf.org
Gardens in Tofino
Tofino Botanical Gardens
1084 Pacific Rim Hwy, 725-1220
Twelve acres of gardens, forest and shoreline. The gardens opened in 1997 and are being created as a place to explore the relationship between culture
and nature in Clayoquot Sound. A network of paths and board-walks lead from the Visitors Center, past kitchen gardens, the Frog Pond, Childrens Garden
and the Rainforest Gazebo into the Forest where clearings are being transformed into a series of pocket gardens.
Ken Gibson's Rhododendron Hill 4th & Gibson
As you pull up to the stop on fourth street, look westward and up, way up. Perched on a hill overlooking Tofino, Ken Gibson has spend decades
assembling hundreds of different varieties of Rhodo's. Renown internationally and seen on local post cards, the blooms start in early spring
and peak in early summer.
Clayoquot Island Gardens, Stubbs Island
On a private island, just offshore from the 1st street dock in Tofino, are set beautiful gardens on a nature preserve. This island was the
original settlement for Tofino until the early 1920's. In keeping with a Tofino Victorian tradition, every Victoria day, locals and visitors
are transported in boats over to visit the gardens and summer festivities.
Catherine's Floating Garden, Clayoquot Sound
One of the newest attractions, featured in Canadian Geographic & "Weird Homes" TV Show. A unique floating series of gardens & sculptures. Not
to be missed. Phone Browning Pass Charters for info: (250) 725-3342.
Surrounded by the tall trees of the West Coast rainforest, Cougar Annie's garden is a place of strange and compelling beauty. From this remote location, Ada Annie Rae-Arthur ran a nursery garden and shipped countless varieties of plants across Canada. .The garden consists of a five-acre clearing, criss-crossed with over two kilometres of meandering pathways and dotted with outbuildings. To visit phone one of the local float plane companies or contact Ocean Outfitters for weekly-scheduled day trips.
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