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Blooms of the week

The Garden of Weedlessness is home to penjing from southern China
Photo: Jardin botanique de Montréal (Gilles Murray)
Garden of Weedlessness
  • Garden of Weedlessness
  • Narcissus cv.
  • Tulipa 'Pinocchio'
  • Puschkinia
  • Nepenthes alata
  • Ananas comosus cv.
  • Jasminum nudiflorum 'Nanum'
  • Bulbophyllum Elizabeth Ann 'Bucklebury' AM/RHS
  • Forsythia mandshurica

Week of April 21, 2025

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  • Alpinia purpurata

    Hospitality Greenhouse

    • Insectivorous plants : pitcher plants and butterworts are in bloom
    • Flowers: red ginger, giant white bird of paradise, bottle palm, tailflowers, calla lilies, bromeliads, phalaenopsis, Amazon lily, etc.
    • Fruits: screw pine, Christmas palm

     

  • Bromeliads

    Tropical Rainforest Greenhouse

    • Flowers : bromeliads, lollipop plant, hibiscus, bat flower, orchids, Mexican shrimp plant, Queen's spiderwort, rabbit's foot, Panama Queen, spider lily, Costa Rican skullcap, etc.

     

  • Citrus reticulata

    Tropical Food Plants Greenhouse

    • Fruits: banana tree, mandarin orange tree, papaya, coconut palm, jackfruit tree, gin berry, soursop tree, Malabar spinach, etc.
    • Flowers: banana tree, soursop tree, cacao tree, dendrobium, limeberry tree, etc.
  • Cymbidium (Gorey 'Trinity' AM/RHS x Maufant 'Rozel' FCC/RHS).

    Orchids and Aroids Greenhouse

    • Spectacularly shaped and coloured orchids. Some are fragrant.
    • 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.
    • Plant walls
    • Blue strap fern with iridescent fronds (terrarium)
    • Strange whisk-fern 
  • Begonia 'Richmondensis'

    Begoniaceae and Gesneriads Greenhouse

    • Foliage of various shapes, textures and colours.
    • Colourful blooms: begonias, tree gloxinia, rhytidophyllum, sinningia, passion flower, african violet, Rex begonia vine, codonanthe, Brazilian edelweiss, Canterbury bells, chandelier plant, etc.
    • Plant walls
  • Arid Regions Greenhouse

    Arid Regions Greenhouse

    • Flowers: aloe, hechtia (end), some cacti and euphorbias, drimiopsis, etc.
    • Fruits: woolly-joint prickly pear and Barbados gooseberry.
    • Near 90-year-old elephant foot trees and golden barrel cactus
  • Overview of the Hacienda

    Hacienda

    • Flowers: orchid cactus, crown of thorns, bougainvillea, burro's tail, etc.  
    • Peeling bark of the fragrant bursera

     

  • Penjings in the Garden of Weedlessness

    Garden of Weedlessness

    • Beautiful penjings
    • Flowers: Chinese quince (end), chocolate vine, Chinese wisteria, common camellia
    • Wollemi pine
  • Calliandra haematocephala.

    Main Exhibition Greenhouse

    • Closed

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