Gardens

 Each season I come out to the grounds at the Canadian Museum of Nature to photograph at the west end of the property, where the Landscapes of Canada Gardens are to be found. This area features plants, trees, grasses, and bushes of four distinct ecosystems of the country, starting here with Boreal Forest.

Prairie Grasslands is the next, with the wild grasses of the West growing well during the season. The Museum itself is in the background here.

This was an early morning visit, with mostly cloudy skies.

A sculpture is on the path, a stainless steel iceberg. To either side of it are rocks and plants typical of the next ecosystem, Arctic Tundra. These plants also grow well in the Ottawa summer.

The view from the west edge of the property.

This tree was in full fall colours.

I liked the look of these plants in the Prairie Grassland.

The last ecosystem is Mammoth Steppe, featuring plants of the time of the mammoths that still thrive today. They are around a set of statues of three mammoths alongside the path, leading towards the Museum. In the distance, a scale model of the Moon hangs inside the Queens Lantern.