What Does Butchart Gardens -Victoria BC Have In Common With Naranja Park Site-Oro Valley

We had the pleasure of visiting the 55 acre Butchart Gardens some years ago. It is one of the most magnificent gardens anywhere in the world.

Why would I do a posting about Butchart Gardens? Well, the title of the post should be a hint.

With the potential (hopefully) that the Tucson Museum Of Art may come to Oro Valley, I thought the Naranja Town site would be an excellent venue.

How about this for a thought?

Do you know what was on a good part of the 213 acres of the Naranja site years ago? None other than a giant gravel & sand pit.

Do you know what Butchart Gardens was until Mrs. Butchart had the foresight and tenacity to see what it could become? A giant limestone quarry.

Who knows? Maybe Oro Valley has some visionaries, and just maybe, we could turn a portion of this old gravel pit into a magnificent Oro Valley Desert Botanical Garden.

And, why not?

The Butchart's exhausted limestone quarry was a grim pit prior to its reincarnation as a garden.

The Butchart Gardens today.