Located near Olympic Park, Montreal’s huge botanical garden contains over 20,000 different plant species in 31 specialized gardens. The botanical Alpine garden is located at  Sherbrooke Street East ,at the corner of Pie-IX and Sherbrooke Streets, in Maisonneuve Park.  It attracts over 1 million visitors each year-and even in the wintertime.

After much planning and lots of fundraising, Brother Marie-Victorin proudly opened his garden in 1931. The Garden covers a whopping 75 hectares and boasts more than 22,000 different varieties of plants. The Alpine Garden also displays collections of ground covers and dwarf conifers and even a mineralogical garden with rocks and minerals from all parts of Canada.

The garden consists of five zones: a hardwood forest, a mixed forest, a nordic landscape. The Chinese Garden is the largest, the Japanese Garden of 2.5 hectares is also the largest of its kind outside Japan. Also Tthe Rose Garden. The Marsh and Bog Garden’s collection of aquatic and wetland plants combines species native to Québec with more exotic foreign ones like water hyacinth and lotus.

Botanical Garden is The Flowery Brook, where water flows from the Alpine Garden and meanders through informal beds of irises, peonies and day-lilies.