**This year,** Quebec City celebrated its rich history in grand garden style.
To mark Samuel de Champlain’s founding of this charming French settlement
400 years ago, the city planted 8,000 acres of public space with more than 200,000 flowers, filling boulevards, riverbanks and empty lots, and distributed 6,000 elm and birch trees to homeowners to plant in their home gardens. As well, about 25,000 packets of nasturtium seeds were handed out to residents and shop owners to plant in the spring. The result: hundreds of hanging baskets and window boxes overflowing with red, yellow, pink and orange blooms. Dramatic floral sculptures (dubbed “mosaicultures”) of flying ducks, huge flower urns and a giant-sized ship-in-a-bottle at various sites made for thought-provoking displays. Statement-making garden installations and chic rooftop container potagers explored the future of gardens and gardening in unusual ways. While some inspired me to think, others were simply striking to drink in. Here are some of my favourite moments.
**Symbolizing the city’s settlement by immigrants over the past 400 years, Passengers weighed 37 tons and consisted of more than 20,000 plants, mainly santolina and alternanthera.**
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