Garden of the Month
Chinese Lanterns 
The Montreal Botanic Garden (Provence of Quebec, Canada) has a
famous Chinese lantern festival in their Chinese garden (the largest
outside of China), illuminated each evening
from early September to late October, and different each year. (click here for
2001 lanterns). The following are from their 2004 festival
of lanterns.
In addition, in their display greenhouse is the annual Halloween
Pumpkin Ball, with a theme each year (this year relating to world
agriculture), including pumpkins decorated by local children.
Winners are judged and announced at a final ball. A few
representative photos of these are below.
Chinese lanterns
temple in pond
pond,
lanterns and reflection, mountain
arches in pond,
pagoda
people and
carriage, in pond
dragon pillar
monkeys
lantern tree
floating turtle
typical silk
lantern along walks (all are different)
hanging cat
lantern along walk (typical of small animal lanterns)
Inside displays
Peace sign
(succulents like sedum)
Live Witch (in
main conservatory Halloween display, french speaking)
Hanging lanterns
Pink pumpkin
Green pumpkin
Universe pumpkin
Hawaiian pumpkin
several pumpkins
watering can
dried arrangement
Outside display
Halloween maze
at greenhouse entrance
Fall display
outside greenhouse (bronze sedge, ageratum, amaranth, corn)
