Montreal Botanical Garden

The Montreal Botanical Garden (French: Jardin botanique de Montréal ) is a 748 600 square meters botanical garden in the Canadian city of Montreal. The garden has several greenhouses and shows thematically separated different vegetations over 22,000 plant species, 30 themed gardens and a large arboretum, making it the second largest botanical garden in the world. The Botanical Garden is located west of the Olympic Stadium Montreal. The garden was (later known as Brother Marie - Victorin a religious clergyman of the Brothers of the Christian Schools ) formed on the initiative of the botanist Joseph Louis Conrad Kirouac, 1931, in the heyday of the Great Depression by Mayor Camillien Houde and after the draft from Germany who emigrated to America gardener, botanist and landscape architect Henry Teuscher (1891-1984) created.

The Chinese Garden ( opened in 1991 ) shows the traditional Chinese garden design and is the largest outside of China. Opened in 1988, The Japanese Garden is next to the garden art and up to 150 years old bonsai trees exhibits on the tea ceremony, for Iaidō and for Ikebana. Since 2001, the First Nations Garden shows native plants such as maple, birch or pine. An exhibition showing the life, art, and design methods of the First Nations. The Alpine Garden shows alpine plants. On the grounds of the Botanical Garden is located since 1990 Insectarium.