Spring Garden

 It is my tradition each season to come out to the Canadian Museum of Nature to show the Landscapes of Canada Gardens through the year, and so I stopped by earlier this month. This is set on the west side of the property, and features four zones with plants, trees, shrubs, grasses, and flowers. The first is the Boreal Forest, a landscape that covers a vast swath of the country, with coniferous forests being a signature of that place.

This historical plaque is found here, honouring John Macoun, a field naturalist who left a big legacy behind in Canadian science.

I took a close up of the evergreens.

Prairie Grassland is the next ecosystem. Its grasses grow long over the course of the summer here.

This sculpture has the path cross through it. It is a stainless steel iceberg, created by artist and inventor William Lishman.

Another view of it from the west side of the property also includes plants and grasses growing in between the rocks. These are the next ecosystem- Arctic Tundra.

They were doing well in spring growth during this visit.

Also here are bricks inscribed by donors- some in memory of loved ones.

The last ecosystem is the Mammoth Steppe, where around the statues of the mammoth family at left are plants that would have been growing during their time, and still grow today. Up in the glass tower of the Museum is a model of the Moon.