Montreal Botanical Garden
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The Montreal Botanical Garden (French: Jardin botanique de Montréal ) is a 748,600 square meter botanical garden in the Canadian city of Montreal . The garden has various greenhouses and shows thematically different vegetation, over 22,000 plant species, 30 themed gardens and a large arboretum , making it the second largest botanical garden in the world. It is located west of the Montreal Olympic Stadium . The garden was (Marie-Victorin later as a brother, a religious cleric on the initiative of the botanist Joseph Louis Conrad Kirouac Brothers of the Christian Schools ) in 1931 in the heyday of the Great Depression by Mayor Camillien Houde founded and designed by the emigrated from Germany to America gardener, botanist and landscape architect Henry Teuscher (1891–1984).
The Chinese Garden (opened in 1991) shows traditional Chinese garden art and is the largest outside of China . The Japanese Garden , opened in 1988, shows not only garden art and bonsai trees that are up to 150 years old, but also exhibitions on the tea ceremony , Iaidō and Ikebana . The First Nations Garden has been showing native plants such as maple , birch and pine since 2001 . An exhibition shows the way of life, art and construction technology of the First Nations . The Alpine Garden shows alpine plants. An insectarium has been located on the grounds of the Botanical Garden since 1990 .
Web links
- Website of the Montreal Botanical Garden (English)
- The Montreal Botanical Garden as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parks Canada: Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada - Montréal Botanical Garden ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Venues for the 1976 Summer Olympics
Coordinates: 45 ° 33'26 " N , 73 ° 33'24.5" W.