Thanks for sharing, looks a very interesting place and I enjoyed the video

This is a most interesting video. Living in Ontario, one wouldn't believe this was Canada. I loved the Brug. - I have been trying to get mine to bloom for three years - just had our first frost kill off all the buds. And the Kiwis - how nice to have your own home-grown. I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed visiting exotic gardens on the west coast. I've seen incredible gardens that are all no further south than Ottawa. There is a large selection of plants and my favorite are broadleaf evergreens. As an ex-Ontario resident it will take me years to explore gardening here. Some flora goes dormant in the fall while others stay or actually pick the time to flower. It's like every season has it's plants. While others just sit as if time stood still, the dry summer turns into a wet winter.

I've seen weird stuff like mahonia flowering before, during and after a snowfall. Palms on a sunny day in January with snow on the mountains. Or palms in frost. Yuccas in a pineapple express and the same plants in a dried out summer garden. Golden bamboo in Vancouver. Black bamboo in Victoria. Fatsia waiting for fall to flower. And yes the kiwis. I could not even grow normal apples in the North Bay - Sudbury area. I had good rain in summer (Victoria is too dry) but it snowed before Nov and I'd get a big frost or snow in early May. This year snow fell on the last day in May around North Bay. Parksville, BC has palms and kiwis and the very odd thing is that Sudbury or North Bay are further south. It seems not to make any sense but it's about winds and ocean currents. There's a reason why the conifers get so large on the west coast.

This is a photo of an exotic plant enthusiast showing a public planting of palms north of Victoria in Parksville, BC.

Here is a link that might be useful: Parksville, BC