The dastardly demon, Ra, who has stolen my life force and imprisoned it in his dungeon, succumed to the power of my knights yesterday, long enough for me to reclaim my life force for a trip to le gardin boutanique. My champion, the valiant knight prednisone, fought side by side with the knight naprocin and banished the evil Ra for several hours. During this repreve, Le Roi Lee (as opposed to Leroy) accompanied me to the garden. Yes, that does make me Queen Terri (ah, queen of the earth I believe is the translation), as if you hadn't guessed that at one point I would reveal my true identity.
Le Gardin Boutanique in Montreal is one of the finest botanical gardens I have visited. After Roi Lee and I walked through the rose garden, we arrived at the Chinese Garden (Gardin Chine). The entire garden was built in China and imported by boat and is believed to be the largest chinese garden outside of china. The incredible sacred lotus was in bloom. There were so many interesting plants that it was hard to change focus from the details of the garden to the structural elements which made this huge garden so impressive. My guess is that the chinese garden covered more than an acre and a half.
As we left the chinese garden in search of the japanese garden, we stumbled upon the "flowering feilds". A winding collection of english style borders centered on a small stream which was actually the watering runoff of the alpine garden, the flowering feilds were completely in bloom. The garden was created with a remarkable small palette of plants (for the most part, peonies, bearded iris, lilies, daylily and sedum - all my favorites:) I thought this area of le gardin botanique would be an inspiration for a garden I would like to create in my side yard. I have to get permission from the prince and princess to remove some play space, however.
I was really interested to see the contrast between the Chinese garden and the Japanese garden, but on the way, the feindish demon Ra, returned to fight some more. The knight prednisone was able to keep him at bay for a short visit to the Japanese garden where there was a remarkable contrast in style. The japanese garden was more manicured, more open and a bit more contrived as opposed to naturalistic. Is naturalistic even a word? whatever. The contrast may have been exaggerated, however, because the japanese garden for the most part was a sun garden and the chinese garden was shadier.
The king and i really had a great visit, it was encroyable. Unfortunately, it ended with the trimumph of the evil demon, no happy ending to this fairy tale yet. The good news is that the valant knights were able to reconquer Ra for a long dinner (4 and a half hours -no kidding!) in which the 20.000 courses could have easily fit onto one regular dinnerplate. I wish i had some pictures of that.
I'll post some gardin botanique pictures when we get home - I have some really good ones - so check back!
Le Gardin Boutanique in Montreal is one of the finest botanical gardens I have visited. After Roi Lee and I walked through the rose garden, we arrived at the Chinese Garden (Gardin Chine). The entire garden was built in China and imported by boat and is believed to be the largest chinese garden outside of china. The incredible sacred lotus was in bloom. There were so many interesting plants that it was hard to change focus from the details of the garden to the structural elements which made this huge garden so impressive. My guess is that the chinese garden covered more than an acre and a half.
As we left the chinese garden in search of the japanese garden, we stumbled upon the "flowering feilds". A winding collection of english style borders centered on a small stream which was actually the watering runoff of the alpine garden, the flowering feilds were completely in bloom. The garden was created with a remarkable small palette of plants (for the most part, peonies, bearded iris, lilies, daylily and sedum - all my favorites:) I thought this area of le gardin botanique would be an inspiration for a garden I would like to create in my side yard. I have to get permission from the prince and princess to remove some play space, however.
I was really interested to see the contrast between the Chinese garden and the Japanese garden, but on the way, the feindish demon Ra, returned to fight some more. The knight prednisone was able to keep him at bay for a short visit to the Japanese garden where there was a remarkable contrast in style. The japanese garden was more manicured, more open and a bit more contrived as opposed to naturalistic. Is naturalistic even a word? whatever. The contrast may have been exaggerated, however, because the japanese garden for the most part was a sun garden and the chinese garden was shadier.
The king and i really had a great visit, it was encroyable. Unfortunately, it ended with the trimumph of the evil demon, no happy ending to this fairy tale yet. The good news is that the valant knights were able to reconquer Ra for a long dinner (4 and a half hours -no kidding!) in which the 20.000 courses could have easily fit onto one regular dinnerplate. I wish i had some pictures of that.
I'll post some gardin botanique pictures when we get home - I have some really good ones - so check back!
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While the King and Queen were off in foreign lands, the prince and princess were surviving their own adventures in which they had to dodge the sweets and flowers thrown at them by their admirers...and gossip ran through the town wondering why the king and queen were not in their thrones on the front lawn of 139. But, alas, they were off in a beautiful country where it was not raining....
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