User talk:Emma.Keary/Ornamental Gardens, Ottawa

The city of Ottawa is considered "a city of gardens" with over 75 public gardens.[1] The Ornamental Gardens are located at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and is 3.2 hectares (8 acres).[2] Once used as a test facility for the development of winter hardy roses, weigela and peonies, it now acts as the steward to several large collections of ornamentals. Several notable collections include the Explorer rose collection, the Arthur Percy Saunders peonies and the Isabella Preston lilac series. To provide a proper environment for the many plant collections the Ornamental Gardens has been subdivided into several features. These include the Macoun Memorial Garden, the Lilac Walk, the Rock Garden, the Perennial Border and the Explorer Rose Garden. As a display garden for the AAS (All American Selection) the Ornamental Gardens also presents a yearly, dynamic display of the choicest annuals and perennials. History The current site of the Central Experimental Farm was founded in 1886 from a site of near wilderness carved out by the First Farm director William Saunders.[3] At the age of 62, his passion for flowers along with newly appointed Horticulturalist William T. Macoun utilized his plans for the garden from 12-years prior to develop the forest to a modern example of the current ornamental gardens.[4] There have been multiple phases to modern-day development of the property due to primary research, education and landscape.[5] These changes have undergone physical movements, redesigns, expansions, neglections, restorations, and rebuilds.[6] Recently federal employees and volunteers have restored the rose, peony, lilac and iris collections, in which were designed to honour the work of Ottawa's Isabella Preston and Felicitas Svejda.[7] Geography Simplified map of the Central Experimental Farm attractions The Ornamental Gardens are currently one of five public areas associated with the Central Experimental farm.[8]These include the Dominion Arboretum, Tropical Greenhouses, Merivale Shelterbelt, Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Mineral Chemistry The horticulture industry is seeminglessly more than continuous growth and development of plants. Every chosen species in an environment has its own chemical composition. The ornamental gardens show presence of agrominerals, in which demonstrate mineral substance mixtures of mineral and organic substances. the dominant chemical composition facilitated in the garden is concentrations of nitrogen, carbon, potassium, and phosphorus. Preparation for the annuals season begins during spring months in the Tropical Greenhouses at the Central Experimental Farm. Chosen annuals are individually placed in garden pots containing promix soil. Promix consists of 7% total nitrogen that is critical to plant growth and reproduction.[9] Substances work to correlate and interwine to intiate greater outcomes. Phorsphorus promotes nitrogen uptake by enchancing nitrogen retention in ecosystems.[10] While essential for cell division and development of growing plants. This allows plants to capture, store and convert sunlight energy to biochemicals like Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP).[11]