When I was in Montreal, I wanted to check out their Botanical Garden.
It is in the Olympic Stadium. Seriously this place is really impressive. I am not an expert about gardens but this has to be the best one or at least in the top 5 in the entire world. First of all the place is enormous. You can easily spend a day there looking around seeing plants from all over the Americas. Thankfully with your ticket, you can come back another time. They have an Insectarium which basically houses insects. I didn't have enough time to check it out though. =(
You see these things all over the garden.
I think this guy is a beekeeper?
Here is a piano.
These are actually apples!
These are the Moai from Easter Island. Pretty neat.
Cool fountain and frogs!
Mother Earth.
This one was really impressive.
Here are some ducks!
Faucet watering the flowers!
This one has to be the more impressive one in the whole park.
It is really huge!
So they actually had a garden with poisonous plants. Yup. Actual real plants that are very dangerous. This is a testament to how they roll in Canada. They obviously have enough confidence in the visitors that they will not do something stupid like touch it. You would NEVER EVER see this kind of thing where the public can easily access it in the mighty US of A. Did I mention that they had MANY poisonous plants? Here are a handful, and there were quite a few more that were there.
Poison Hemlock
Here is the plant where you can make Ricin.
Here is the Poison Ivy.
Poison Sumac.
Lily of the Valley
We saw some foxes in the gardens also!
I would have gotten more pictures but my camera battery was dying. =(
Lastly they have this gargantuan greenhouse.
I swear to you this is the biggest by far I have ever seen. It seemed like a dozen were connected.
Sorry about the lesser quality of the following pictures.
My good camera died so I had to use my phone.
They had lots of Bonsai trees. Note the wires holding them "just so".
Here is another mini tree.
Chinese Elm.
Here is the Pitcher Plant
The unique thing with this plant is that it is actually a carnivore. It traps and eats flies!
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