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Just as the famous Japanese technique of garden design, called
shakkei (borrowed scenery), involves the incorporation of adjacent
and distant landscapes into the garden setting, the Laurel Point
Inn's garden features panoramic views of Victoria's Outer Harbour
and Sooke Hills.
One
of the dominant features of the garden is the large reflecting
pond — a glassy surface that captures the ever changing
sky, seascapes and the architecture of the Laurel Point Inn.
Islands in the pond represent BC's Gulf Islands and Active
Pass. The other dominant feature of the garden is the waterfall.
An enormous undertaking to build, just one of the rocks in
the waterfall weighs a whopping 47,000 pounds and had to be
swung into place using a crane tipped on its side to create
the pendulum motion.
The
Laurel Point Inn's Japanese garden is a place where guests can
feel at home with nature in the midst of downtown Victoria. |
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