Rose Garden

The rose is the Queen of all flowers!

When you enter the magnificent and modern Rose Garden of the Botanical Garden, designed in 1976, you will find yourself in a kingdom where all of the subjects are queens.

The 10,000 roses in the collection are laid out in winding beds flanked by shrubs and trees, and flower in a veritable symphony of colors from mid-June to the frosts of October.

In 1992, new beds were added, with shrub roses that extend as far as the Japanese Garden. Arbors have also been erected and are already graced with climbing roses.

Atop a pedestal afloat in a sea of roses, a regal bronze lion, a gift from the City of Lyon to Montréal, guards the southern entrance of this garden covering 2,5 hectares.

Another bronze sculpture, this one in the heart of the garden, represents a young girl holding a necklace. This work, entitled First Jewel was created in New York by the Romanian artist Alice Winant, in 1973.

Since hybrid tea roses, floribundas and grandifloras are all sensitive to the cold, autumn visitors should not be surprised to see the gardeners shrouding them in huge thermal blankets to shelter them from the rigors of the Montréal winter.