Weekend goings-on

This morning our family drove down the "mountain" (that is, the Niagara Escarpment) to visit the indoor Mediterranean Garden at Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens. It's a wonderful place to spend a winter day, because it offers a brief respite from the ice and snow outside -- rather like going south for a few hours. This garden contains flora from the several regions of the world enjoying a mediterranean climate, including the Mediterranean itself, the Cape Province of South Africa, central Chile, southern California and Baja California, and two regions in Australia around Perth and Adelaide. There are other gardens at the RBG, but these are, of course, closed during the winter months.

Incidentally a quick google search reveals that there are Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, Melbourne and Tasmania in Australia, and at Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.