Alders Plantation
Vacation Rental | B&B | Water Gardens
About
About
Located on Salt Spring Island in beautiful BC, Canada, Alders Plantation is premised after the plantation homes along the banks of the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. The plantation-style house has a hip roof, four double French doors, and a covered veranda. It showcases three themed bedrooms, each with an ensuite bathroom; two including steam showers, and one offering a bathing tub for aroma therapy & bubble baths.


The property has 3400 catalogued plants, bulbs, trees and flowering shrubs. For fruit, there is a six-tree orchard of apple, plum, cherry and pear, plus fruit stalks and vines including kiwifruit, Japanese fiber bananas, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb and blueberries. Trees include western red cedar, balsam fir, Douglas fir, Crimson King Maples, Cider Gum Eucalyptus, weeping and standard birch, a 65-ft California Coast Redwood grown from seed, 28-ft Giant Sequoia, blue spruce, and the rare deciduous conifer Alaskan larch. Features of the summer garden include over 60 Trumpet Lilies, 90 dinnerplate dahlias, 22 varieties of peony, hydrangea, lavender, delphinium, hollyhock, lupine, gladiolus, 23 Japanese maples (acers; of which there are 15 varieties) and several flowering annuals. The winter/spring gardens offer a great showing of 800+ tulips, 600 daffodils, hundreds of crocuses, Asiatic lilies, snowdrops, bluebells and winter-flowering viburnum and heather.
Water features include 6 ponds with 11 waterfalls, and a 65-ft babbling brook with aquatic grasses and water lilies. All waterfalls, ponds and the 700+ feet of walkways are night-lit for optimal viewing. Flora and fauna abound, including goldfish, wild ducks, turtles, frogs and seven varieties of nesting birds (chickadee, towhee, nuthatch, swallow, Downie woodpecker, Northern Flicker and pileated woodpecker). Several flowering saucer magnolias, climbing clematis, wisteria, Virginia creeper and large weeping willow trees complete the picturesque southern plantation garden setting.
In 2023, a grasscourt was added, available for grass volleyball, badminton, paddle tennis, croquet, lawn bowling and bocce. The property is a short five-minute walk to the village of Ganges, the largest (and only!) town on Salt Spring Island.
