Join the thousands heading back to campus this week – but forget early morning lectures, all-night essays, nerve-wracking exams or costly tuition. Peter Johansen found these credit-worthy campus outings, and reached them the way students do. By public transit.
Horticultural Garden, Algonquin College
An oasis at Algonquin.
Just metres from busy Woodroffe Avenue lies this 4.5-acre oasis designed and maintained by students in Algonquin’s horticultural industries program. From bottle rockets to spiderflowers, Russian arborvitae to salvia farinacea, the array of vegetation is dazzling: more than 6,000 plant types have grown here, says academic technologist Rachel Rhoades. Overall design is enhanced by Asian-influenced arbors, …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
