Jardin Botanique

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  • Address
    opp Olympic Park, 4101 Rue Sherbrooke Est, Plateau du Mont Royal, H1X 2B2
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  • Phone
    872 1400
  • Website
  • Transport
    underground rail: Pie-IX
  • mid-May-early Sep: 09:00 - 18:00 ; Sep-Oct: 09:00 - 21:00 ; Nov-mid-May: 09:00 - 17:00

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Lonely Planet review

Montréal's Jardin Botanique is the third-largest in the world after London's Kew Gardens and Berlin's Botanischer Garten. Its wealth of flowering plants is carefully managed to bloom in stages. The sprawling rosebeds in particular are a sight in summer. Climate-controlled greenhouses house cacti, banana trees and 700 species of orchid. Bird-watchers should bring their binoculars.

A popular draw is the landscaped Japanese Garden with traditional pavilions, tearoom and art gallery; the bonsai 'forest' is the largest outside Asia.

Every fall the Chinese garden dons its most exquisite garb for the popular Magic of Lanterns when hundreds of handmade silk lanterns sparkle at dusk (mid-September to early November). Montrealers are devoted to this event and it feels sometimes like it's standing room only even though it's held in a huge garden.

Creepy crawlies get top billing at the bug-shaped Insectarium. Most of the 250,000 specimens are mounted but live displays include bees, tarantulas.