Canadian Gardening: Several Pics from Royal Botanical Gardens, 1 by Erynne

Erynne wrote:
We're being rather quiet here on the Canadian Forum, eh?
Ack, that's okay. I get like that too. I have some pics from my visit to the RBG, in Burlington, taken this past weekend.
I've actually been there two weekends in a row now and have decided to become a member because I feel they have so much to offer, not just for myself, but for the whole family. The first weekend we took the children to the Aboretum portion of RBG (they didn't want to do the gardens). Sadly, I forgot the camera (still kicking myself) but the kids really enjoyed being able to feed chipmunks and chickadees right from their hands. For my 7 yr old son, having a bird land on his little hand for the first time in his life, was better than Canada's Wonderland! The giggles and squeals of delight from our 4 children that day had me so emotional (this is a mother "thing"). To visit the Aboretum is free and to visit the other portions costs $8.00/person for the whole day for non-members.
DH and I went the following weekend on our own to visit the gardens and too often I forgot to take a pic because I was too caught up with looking around. But here's what I did get:

This is as you enter Hendrie Park. Same display of mums is on the other side of the path.
Currently, there is a large exhibit of sculptures created by artists from Zimbabwe. The sculptures are everywhere through out Hendrie and are for sale. I think the lowest price I saw on one of these sculptures was $1000 Cdn.