Chinese Garden
Pavilions and bridges.
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One of the largest botanical gardens in the world, founded in 1931 by the monk and botanist Brother Marie-Victorin, spreading over some seventy-five hectares in east Montreal, with tens of thousands of plant species in outdoor gardens and greenhouses. Its best-known gardens are the Chinese Garden with its pavilions, bridges and lake, one of the largest Chinese gardens outside Asia, the tranquil Japanese Garden with its stones and bonsai, the First Nations Garden, and the rose and medicinal plant gardens. The greenhouses hold desert and tropical plants and orchids that stay green all winter. In autumn, from September to late October, the Gardens of Light festival lights the Chinese and Japanese gardens with lanterns in the evening. Tickets are C$25.50 per adult for visitors from outside Quebec, per the official site; the garden is part of the Space for Life complex beside the Olympic Park and can be combined with the Biodome in one day.
Pavilions and bridges.
Bonsai.
Autumn lanterns.
4101 Sherbrooke Street East, near the Olympic Park, Montreal
In autumn, September to late October, in the evenings in the Chinese and Japanese gardens.
