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Blooms of the week

Ornamental grasses and fall colour, Japanese Garden
Photo: Jardin botanique de Montréal (Gilles Murray)
Ornamental grasses of the Japanese Garden in autumnal colours.
  • Ornamental grasses of the Japanese Garden in autumnal colours.
  • Symphyotrichum laeve 'Bluebird'
  • Malus sp.
  • Hylotelephium spectabile 'Carmen'
  • Brassica
  • Eunonymus alatus 'Compactus'
  • Acer rubrum
  • Main Exhibition Greenhouse
  • The willows

Week of October 23, 2023

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  • Alpinia purpurata

    Hospitality Greenhouse

    • Insectivorous plants in the terrarium.
    • Flowers: red ginger, pendent heliconia, Chinese yellow banana, and more.
    • Fruits: screw pine

     

  • Bromeliads

    Tropical Rainforest Greenhouse

    • Flowers: some bromeliads and orchids, lollypop plant, Mysore clock vine, Brazilian plume, and more.  
    • Colourful leafs carpet the ground and Spanish moss serves as a backdrop. 

     

  • Citrus reticulata

    Tropical Food Plants Greenhouse

    • Fruits: banana tree, papaya, mandarin orange tree, coconut palm, grapefruit tree, lemon drop mangosteen, starfruit tree, akee, and more.
    • Flowers: soursop tree, cacao tree, banana tree, and more.
  • Cymbidium (Gorey 'Trinity' AM/RHS x Maufant 'Rozel' FCC/RHS).

    Orchids and Aroids Greenhouse

    • Spectacularly shaped and coloured orchids.
    • Some aroids are also in bloom, such as tailflowers and peace lilies.
  • General view of the Ferns Greenhouse

    Ferns Greenhouse

    • Fascinating staghorn ferns and tree ferns.
    • Beautiful maidenhair ferns.
    • Blue strap fern and tiny aquatic ferns in the terrarium.
  • Begonia 'Richmondensis'

    Begoniaceae and Gesneriads Greenhouse

    • Foliage of various shapes, textures and colours.
    • Colourful blooms: begonias, goldfish plant, tree gloxinia, medinilla, passion flower, basket plant, and more.
    • Beautiful plant walls.
  • Arid Regions Greenhouse

    Arid Regions Greenhouse

    • Flowers: crown of thorns, carrion flower, pachypodium, and more.
    • Fruits: woolly-joint prickly pear
    • Over 80-year-old elephant foot trees (next to the doors of the Hacienda).
  • Overview of the Hacienda

    Hacienda

    • Strange caudex plants 
    • Peeling bark of the fragrant bursera

     

  • Penjings in the Garden of Weedlessness

    Garden of Weedlessness

    • Beautiful penjings
    • Flowers: farfugium
  • Calliandra haematocephala.

    Main Exhibition Greenhouse

    • Halloween Shivers
    • Fruits: many colorful cucurbits, firethorn, pomegranate, turkey berry, and more.
    • Flowers: chrysanthemums, bird of paradise, feathered cockscomb, lion's tail, cannas, and more.

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