The Montreal Botanic Gardens are made up of many smaller gardens.
This is the Perennial Garden, filled with flowers you can put in your back yard,
and they will come back year after year.
Some of the nicest and hardiest of the perennials are coneflowers. In the past, they
came only in lavender, pink, and white, but the Montreal Botanic Gardens has developed
many more colors, some of them very vivid.
Fence and perennial coneflowers.
Some coneflowers.
Yellow Cannas standing five feet high.
Wandering through the various beds in the Perennial Garden.
Many different colored Cannas. These are actually fairly rare, and Montreal has
one of the largest collections of cannas in the world. They must be taken indoors
during the severe winter and then brought out again next summer.
Rose Mallows are gigantic flowers, nearly a foot in diameter. They are related to
Rose of Sharon and Hibiscus.
Rose colored Rose Mallow, twelve inches in diameter.
White Rose Mallows. There is an entire garden just of rose mallows in many colors.
White Rose Mallow with Red Center. There are other whites which do not have the red.
Pink Rose Mallows
Pure White Rose Mallow, no red center.
Pink and White Rose Mallow, more than a foot in diameter.
Esplanade with fountain in Perennial Garden.
Coleus are some of the most common annuals and very easy to grow. The Gardens
show new varieties of Coleus each year.
Sonora Sunset Coleus. You can find any color you want to complement your yard.
Five new varieties of Coleus. These started with tiny plants in early June, but they
grow rapidly if watered well, and this is what they looked like in late August.
They last only a few months; they need to be planted again next year.
The Gardens also have many lovely varieties of Gladiolas. These are red and white.
Soft Pink Gladiolas
White with a touch of red Gladiolas.
An archway of Blue Petunias. Each year they make the arch with different flowers,
and it is a very popular spot for visitors to take pictures.
One of the most diverse and colorful flowers in late summer is the dahlia, and
the Gardens had many. This is "Sandia Melody."
"Cheri" Dahlia
"Parkland Rave" Dahlia
"Purple Flare" Dahlia
"Kosmos 150" White Dahlia
"Touch of Violet" Dahlia
"Red Dazzler" Dahlia
"Tabasco" Dahlia
Callibrachoa/Million Bells in the pots, with Yellow and Orange Cannas
Yellow Cannas, White Daisies, and Yellow Callibrachoa/Million Bells/Mini-Petunias.
This garden was devoted to orange flowers, like Cannas and Zinnias.
Orange Cannas
"Brocade Fire Pelargonium" This whole area was planted with different red flowers/
Zinnias and Geraniums.
These are various beds of annual flowers, ones which you need to plant each year
and last just for one summer. There are many benches where you can sit under a tree
to rest your feet and just enjoy the colors.
"Cherry Zahara Zinnias." These are a new variety, and each flower looks tie-dyed,
they are no longer flat pinks.
A visitor in the Perennial Garden.
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