Montreal Botanical Garden, Botanical garden in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, Montreal, Canada
Montreal Botanical Garden is a national historic site in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie and home to more than 22,000 plant species arranged in themed zones and greenhouses. The grounds divide into outdoor gardens and climate-controlled pavilions that showcase vegetation from tropical, arid, and temperate regions.
Frère Marie-Victorin founded the institution in 1931 as a research center for botany and a public park. The main buildings were designed in Art Deco style and have been expanded over the decades with additional gardens and greenhouses.
The Chinese Garden, built 1990–1991 by 50 artisans from Shanghai's landscape institute under Le Weizhong, follows Ming dynasty lines and used 500 tonnes of stone from Lake Tai. The Japanese Garden, designed by Ken Nakajima in 1988, hosts tea ceremony classes in summer and an annual Hiroshima memorial on 5 August with a peace bell made in Hiroshima. The First Nations Garden, opened in 2001, presents medicinal and food plants of Canada's indigenous peoples.
The grounds offer wheelchair rental and guided tours for visitors who want to learn more about specific collections or individual regions. Spring and summer bring the most outdoor blooms, while greenhouses remain open year-round.
The greenhouses hold a collection of more than 3,000 orchid species, including rare forms from South America and Asia. In autumn, the Japanese garden becomes part of the Gardens of Light event, where thousands of handcrafted lanterns glow among the plants.
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