Chinese Garden Montreal

... ; We then crossed the road to the city's large botanic gardens and this was well worth the visit, especially the very fine Chinese Garden with colourful illuminated 'paper' figures.  I have seen many botanical gardens, but this one still managed to ...

... but luckily Ilir is an expert of the place and gave us the tip. The botanic garden is huge, we just manage to visit the beautiful Chinese garden and then sit in the grass next to the two lakes. We then go to the Usine-C (I think this is the name of ...

... observatory I discover a rain shower but head for the Botanical Gardens anyhow. I start with the rose gardens and into the Chinese garden. Next is the Alpine garden, past the flowery brook, into the rhododendrons (not flowering), through the ...

... some live ones here and there – my favorite was the stick insects that were like praying mantises. In the middle was a life sized Chinese garden with all the buildings and rocks included – made us want to go back to Asia. At the far end of ...

... day today with not a cloud in the sky so we went to Montreal's Botanical gardens a 200 acre site including the largest classical Chinese garden outside of china and is supposed to be well worth the visit. After to be honest a late start (Monaco grand ...

... world's 2nd largest botanical garden.  The 181 acre garden is said to have 26,000 species of plants.  There was a Chinese garden that had pretty authentic Chinese pagodas and an impressive lily pond.  But other than this, I thought that ...

... reason for the city's name - http://www.montreal.com/parks/mtroyal.html), see the botanical gardens (http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/montreal_botanic_garden), and get over to visit a famous church "Mary, Queen of the World" ...

... down with the plants being covered up with tarps. We did however get to see the one part that we wanted to, which was the Chinese Garden Section, it was beautiful. Olympic Park was quite run down, but if Martin was there he would swear it was designed by ...

... ; Very nice.   Some of the flowers were just blooming because its early summer here.   We saw the Chinese garden, the Japanese garden and the Alpine garden.   Not to mention that it was a beautiful day, sunny and in the mid ...