Flower Power - adventures in the Botanical Garden

by Sebastien
Hi, it's me Sebastien again.  I wanted to tell you about the rest of my day at the Montreal Botanical Garden (known as the Jardin Botanique by us locals).  After we left the "bug nuseum" we went and explored all the flowers and stuff in the gardens. Our first stop was the Japanese garden.  It was really neat because it looked just like it does in Japan.
    

     

 They had these neat little trees there that were so small they grow in flower pots.  Daddy says they're called Bonsai trees and they're really old.  Here's a few that we saw... 


          

 There were lots of neat things to see too.  There I am pointing out the fish in the pond, then mommy and I took some time to smell the roses.

     

 After that, we went to the Chinese garden.  This was daddy's favourite section.  He really found it to be beautiful.  Even the water was an amazing greenish-blue colour. 
       

 They had also built lots of neat Chinese looking buildings.  Daddy said something about being hungry for a combo #5 (whatever that means). 

     

     

    

There was also lots of nice flowers at the garden.  I kept wanting to pick some for mommy, but it seems that's a big "no-no" at this garden.  Oh well, I guess she'll have to be content with those yellow flowers that keep growing in our back lawn.  Here's a few photos daddy took of the pretty flowers (he gets this from Grandma Butler I'm told)... 

        

 We also got to go in these big green houses.  They aren't really green, they're more like glass houses.  Flowers and plants grow in there all year - even in the winter.  It was like being in a tropical rainforest because they had all kinds of neat plants in there. 

     
          
We saw a banana tree,  mommy smelled some orchids, and we checked out a pineapple tree


look - a waterfalls

After the jungle section, we went to see the desert section.  That's where they had all of those prickly cactuses like you see on the road runner cartoons. 

     
they sure look like they would hurt - ouch!

After the cactuses we went to this section called "Flower Power".  Mommy says that Grandpa Standing would like it because it would remind him of his trip to some concert called "Woodstock" back in 60's. 

Peace !

     
check out this flower power car


Sacha liked this section too!

 We went back to the gardens outside.  Daddy wanted to get fancy with his camera and take a few photos of us.


my family

     

a few "Kodak" moments with mommy

      

Once daddy was done pretending to be a "real" photographer, we went to explore the "first nations" garden.  Daddy explained to me that "first nations" means the Indians peoples that lived in Canada before us French peoples showed up. 
          
                                                    
ducks in a pond
 Hey look - a teepee  
a duck family 


 we even saw a big bird called a heron

  

To finish the day off, I had a quick play on some playground stuff.

     

 Then we had to go back to our house.  Mommy felt guilty and wanted to go do some garden weeding, as daddy kept mumbling about stopping for a combo #5. I hope you liked my adventure.  I'm taking a break to let my parents go work and save up a few dollars before we begin more adventure in August.  I'll be sure to write about them when we get back...