Holly Koit, of Anmore, is the winner of our Great Garden Search Contest; she will receive prizes worth $3,500.
Douglas Walker says it all started, as so many clever creative enterprizes do, with an unexpected encounter with a stranger.
Every summer, I always discover one very special garden that thrills me. This year, I have seen what could be the best garden in B.C. It has everything: fabulous ponds, beautiful perennial borders, extraordinary rose, shrube and tree content and wonderful curving lines.
Nancy Wong describes it perfectly - the experience of sitting on a blanket with a picnic basket close at hand in the middle of VanDusen Botanical Garden and listening to beautiful music under the stars on a night in midsummer."