Montreal Botanical Garden, A Verdant Jewel Amidst the City

4101 Sherbrooke Street East

There are particularly large lawns around the botanical garden

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Introduction

The Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It covers a total area of 75 hectares, including themed gardens and greenhouses. As one of the most important botanical gardens in the world, it has a wide variety of plant species and facilities, and was certified as a national historic site of Canada in 2008. The garden was established in 1931 with an exhibition area of 730,000 square meters, mainly in the French garden style, with 10 greenhouses and 30 themed outdoor gardens, featuring over 26,000 plant species; it is one of the largest botanical gardens in North America. The entrance to the greenhouse exhibition area is the Mosaïcultures reception hall. The bonsai area in the botanical garden is the largest bonsai exhibition area outside Asia, donated by Mr. Wu Yee-Sun in 1984. The tropical rainforest area exhibits dense rainforests with creepers, climbers, and epiphytes. The desert greenhouse mainly exhibits aloe and succulent plants in African deserts, as well as American plants such as cacti and agave. The Dream Lake Garden next to the Montreal Botanical Garden is a Chinese garden with Ming Dynastic style, covering an area of 25,000 square meters. It was built in cooperation between Shanghai and Montreal in 1991, as a symbol of friendship between sister cities, and named after the homophonic "Monhu".