Given that the tulips are all gone, I thought the spring flowers were pretty much over with. I was wrong! The irises are taking their turn.
The neighborhood is iris-etic.
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Iris Season
Tag: flowers
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Jardin botanique
The Botanical Garden of Montréal is big and relatively expensive — $22.50 for adult admission, with a $5.50 discount if you live in the greater Montréal area. But if you get a $9 Accès Montréal card, you can have free access to the outdoor portions of the Botanical garden!… [Read More]
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Flowers and Ashes
The spring is coming on hard with temperatures waggling all over the place, even on the same day; cold and icy one minute, summery and 70s the next. The daffodils are dead but the little violets and vincas are beaming purple and prolific dandelion blossoms punctuate the greenbelts with brilliant yellow polka dots (in MTL there’s a movement to leave dandelions untouched when they’re flowering to feed pollinators.… [Read More]
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Urbanist Trifecta
It was our first weekend after moving in, and there was no internet. So on that Saturday, I went on a morning adventure that was an urbanist trifecta: I bicycled, walked, and took the metro.… [Read More]