Halifax Public Gardens

Halifax Public Gardens is a National Historic Site of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia · Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia · location approximate

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HALIFAX PUBLIC GARDENS Opened to the public in 1875, these grounds limited the 1837 Horticultural Society gardens with an adjacent civic garden created in 1867. The original design of landscape gardener Richard Power is largely intact, partly due to his family's long superintendence. Bedding patterns, exotic foliage, favourite Victorian flowers, subtropical species and tree specimens continue the planting traditions of the era. The serpentine paths, geometric beds, commemorative statuary and bandstand are also typical features of this, one of the rare surviving Victorian gardens in Canada.

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LES JARDINS PUBLICS DE HALIFAX Ouverts au public en 1875, ces jardins regroupaient les jardins aménagés par la Horticultural Society en 1837 et le jardin municipal adjacent créé en 1867. Le plan conçu en 1870 par Richard Power, jardinier paysagiste, est presque intact, du fait que sa famille en a longtemps assuré la surintendance. Repiquages, plantes exotiques et subtropicales, arbres divers et fleurs chères aux Victoriens perpétuent le mode de culture de l'époque; sentiers sinueux, parterres géométriques, statues et kiosques, telle est l'illustration de la rare survivance d'un jardin victorien.

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Halifax Public Gardens

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