Garden

 Each season I feature the Landscapes of Canada Gardens at the Canadian Museum of Nature. This area on the west side of the property includes plants of four distinctive ecosystems. I start with views coming in of Boreal Forest, where trees, flowers, and bushes of this region are placed.

I liked using this tree trunk for contrast. Prairie Grassland stands between here and the museum. Summer warmth will make its grasses and wildflowers grow long. At present its grasses are greening up quickly now that winter is past.

A sculpture straddles the pathway. This steel version of an iceberg is by the late Canadian inventor and artist Bill Lishman.

Arctic Tundra is the third ecosystem represented. Rocks are placed between the path and the sidewalk, and among them are grasses, bushes, and other growth of the far north that appears to have a head start on the spring.

The last of the ecosystems is Mammoth Steppe, taking up the north side of the path as it turns towards the museum. Plants that existed in the day of those animals and remain today are placed here.

A set of three life sized statues of mammoths are found at the end of the path. The museum looms beyond, with the Queens Lantern featuring a model of the Moon inside.