 Welcome to Toronto, Canada. This is one of the first homes for Jan and I and I'm so excited because today we're doing our first vlog in this channel and of course what better place than a botanical garden. This is actually the Allen Gardens Botanical Garden and I cannot wait to actually take you in with me. So let's go. Okay my friends before we get in I wanted to share with you that we're actually standing right now in what's historical being a land that has been taken care of and protected by many first nations and these first nations include the Mississaugas, the Tipewes, so I just wanted to pay respect to that and yeah actually this land is called Toronto as you may know and Toronto means where the trees meet the water which is a beautiful meaning because actually we have the lake Ontario here and a lot of nature so yeah okay let's get in. We actually found out for a very nice lady that works here that we're actually in the tropical house and the orchid house and as you can see behind me we have many orchids here and oh my god we just learned about this orchid right here this one actually blooms from the bottom these are actually the bloom they're gonna bloom sometime after so we didn't get to see them but actually she told us there is a more spectacular bloom that you have ever seen. Okay you guys the plants are amazing here you can see some Spanish moths here and some other moth over there it's beautiful. Guys other than the Spanish fern I actually just found an eggplant and actually it looks like so many of them together it's at Tilancia and actually I really love the color because it's red I've never seen that red that intense of a red in a Tilancia so it's really beautiful actually this is the most relaxing place we have some water and we have some totals there oh my god so many totals I can tell you it's a very tropical field here we have some orchids over here at least these ones are blooming so we could see some color we have some protons here I can tell you the protons is one of my favorite plants is super easy and also look at the color it really pops out and I love it because it looks like dinosaurs almost over here we have a very happy little fig tree and if you have had a little fig tree you know that this is not the most easy plant but here it looks pretty happy now this is actually a very good lesson because also this one even though it looks really happy we have some dry leaves here so of course it always depends on the environment and many other factors and you know even in a greenhouse you can also see some dry leaves I have to show you some beautiful from Elias that we found and actually they just bloom so they're really beautiful it looks like they're from the sea this one is called Ismael del Mad which in Spanish means from the sea so I think it's beautiful I just wanted to show you I've never seen this flower we can see other from Elias here also very beautiful and as you can see this one is just blooming and our first Anthurium but this one is actually beautiful because it's very gay this is actually a leaf to attract the insect and pollinators so they can come to the flower which is this one right here it's so special you guys and I'm so happy that I can share with you here we have another very happy little fig tree I've never seen such a big fatal fig tree but of course if you have one make sure to send a picture because I always love to see your plants oh my god it's so beautiful guys this place is really calm I gotta say oh my god look at this flower I just saw the color it really pops up there over here we have the efembakia and it looks really happy too it's really enjoying the habitat and as you can see we have many blooms right now right now it's actually October so look we have some blooms here but if you know actually it looks like some kind of berry because you have some berries over here but if you know let us know and sorry there's some construction so if you didn't hear it yeah you get the whole experience more croutons over here I love these plants if you have a cartoon let me know in the comments and send a picture we found another from a liar here and look at the colors guys I just cannot get over how bright they are they're really really beautiful and you can see actually how the reds and the pinks really stand out from all the green leaves okay you guys as I told you before today is October the second and many plants are blooming actually we think some over here this one is just coming out and it's just so nice to actually be witness of this like so many flowers in the plants in fall look at this one wow it feels like we're in the jungle actually I've been trying to get this plant for a while for whom it's a little bit harder to get but hopefully we can get it because it's so beautiful again here we have beautiful flowers just coming out like crazy another anthorium here and this one is a little bit more pink it's not very gated but it's also so beautiful this one you guys is a bull gumbillia and actually it's very close to my heart because when we were in Mexico very little we used to have this plant growing all over our school it's really beautiful and now we're going really just underneath it really nice it feels like we're in Mexico no many tropical plants here other protons over here again and look at this piece of lilies they're so good and we have some variegated types here I've never seen a variegated leaf like that for the piece lily so you have some white and some green and then you have the green leaves here for the piece of leaf okay so let's go to the next pavilion okay you guys so we have entered a temperate pavilion and this pavilion I really love it because the temperatures are going down so it's a colder temperature we have many pine trees and many plants that like colder temperatures and of course we couldn't miss this one right here this of course is the ivy and as you may know this plant like colder temperatures and not so much sunlight so here we have our first ivy I'm very sure that we're gonna see more in this pavilion so let's get to it as I told you I think it's so cool that we're actually seeing so many blooms and in this pavilion we're gonna see even more I think right now is the fall but so many plants are blooming and look at this we have a pond here and we have many goldfish which is really amazing so I wanted to share with you guys we started to see some more friends here because as you may know many friends like colder temperatures of course we still have some humidity here so it's not bad for the friend and this one seems to be really happy here so yeah I wanted to show you here we have another English ivy and this is a very good one so it's really beautiful and as you can see it's really long and big so we can see that it's really happy here and of course some flowers here as I told you many plants are blooming in this pavilion and look at this one they also look like they're from the ocean or something like this like a star oh my god look at this pond here guys they're so beautiful and this one right here look how it falls oh my god so many plants we still have to learn about here we have another really big friend and as you can see it's really happy like this room is not as humid as the tropical room but still is very humid so I think that's why these friends do really well here more ivy here of course and look at what we found here of course I had to include the eucalyptus because this plant is super popular in this channel so as you may know the eucalyptus is not super easy to take care of especially indoors because they're really particular about what they like and what they don't like so I really admire people here in this specific botanical garden because I can imagine even in the winter when you have lots of cold weather sometimes you don't have so much sunlight so you can provide more here inside to them and this one looks really happy so yeah I wanted to show you guys let me show you we have some monstera here look how big it is guys so you remember Lupita this one is I think bigger than Lupita for sure but yeah I dream of the day that Lupita will get this big but yeah she looks really happy I wanted to take you back to the entrance of this pavilion because I found this beautiful calathea look how big it's growing well it has many different stems and leaves this one is a calathea Sabrina and as you can see is really happy here because of course it's super humid and as you know calathea loves humidity but just to give you a piece in your heart look at the leaves here some of them are also a little bit dry because this plant really likes humidity sometimes even here in a greenhouse they're lacking some humidity because this plants come from tropics right so yeah when I saw this you know everyone tries their best that is just a learning process we have some gigantic banana trees right here oh my god and over here oh my god we have another birth nest plant of course way bigger than the one we have at home and it's so beautiful to see it and look at this it has new leaves coming out so we were very lucky to actually witness this and we found the queen of this pavilion this high cost tree right here and you can see it's really growing really really tall and yeah I mean you can feel that it is thriving in this place guys we just found Cosetina's coffin right here this is Astralitia Reganae so a bird of paradise and it has many new leaves is thriving here and I just wanted to show you because I love when I found new leaves and we found one here so I think this one is either a new leaf or a flower and then we have another one here to be honest I think it's a flower that is going to bloom soon so we're just witnessing how it comes out it's beautiful okay so now we're going to the other part of the tropical house and I did not want to pass this because we just discovered something super cool which is this monstera right here but actually it has a fruit and this is the first time that I see a fruit on a monstera this is amazing we have one here and another one over there here for example we have an Australian tree fern it's very different than the ferns that we see here in North America actually as you can see the fronts are really small over here we have more of the bucambillas that I told you the white flowers over there so these ones are white the ones that we saw before are purple we have many friends here actually over here then we have here I don't remember but I'll put it in the video but we have one in the house also it almost looks like the blue star fern but I'm pretty sure that is a different one you know I wanted to show you these flowers right here I don't know the name of this plant it's that kind of vine I think because it's actually really growing down but the flowers are really special they have a kind of like a spiral in the center so I think they're really beautiful guys I don't know about you but I used to draw this flower is this kind of like a Hawaiian flower in all of my drawings when I was small isn't it beautiful and the color is really popping and look at this anthorium beautiful this is a very beautiful color in Berlin we only find what we usually find the pink one but this is a red anthorium it's really beautiful here we have one of psalis plants this one comes from Brazil and we have a video about it too in the channel more protons of course because they love humidity guys we just found another oxalis plant right here and it's blooming I love the the flowers of this plant they're so cute and I think they really pop out from the green like the leaves and then the green leaves it's really beautiful so I'm so happy that I could show you and as you can see over there we have a very big tilancia or air plant so as I have told you before these plants don't need soil actually they get they get all of their nutrients and water from around them so they're gonna be very happy in a place like this one that has lots of humidity because they'll get the water from the air and as you can see this one is thriving it's so big we have some ivy here as we pass to the arid house here it's a little bit drier it's not as humid as a tropical place of course because this is the arid house so we have many succulents and many plants are happy in the desert and guys we actually found our first white opuntia plant which is of course these cactus right here we have a very small one and as you can see again this plant is really beautiful and one thing that I noticed is that some of the branches here are actually dried so this is a very good thing to see as well okay now it's sad because they're dry but it's a good lesson for us because sometimes we get really harsh on ourselves when our plants are not the happiest but you know this happens everywhere this is a greenhouse and some of the parts some of the parts of this plant are not the happiest so it's a learning process and it's good to just remember not to be so harsh on ourselves this one is the orphobia mealy I have never seen it in real life actually this is the first time and it's called the crown of storms because it has storms at the end and it looks looks like a crown it's really beautiful guys and it's all nice to share with you because this is the first time that I see this plant specifically in real life over here we have a stapelia gigantea we have another orphoria there it almost looks like a combination between the orphobia that we have the orphobia trigona that we have in the house and the african milk tree because it has the leaves so yeah it's very interesting here we have I think some agave and this reminds me so much of Mexico shout out to our mexicans in the community and yeah we have more plants here look at this aloe it's really big and it's so nice because it's actually growing some new leaves here oh I love to find new leaves it's really beautiful I don't know if you remember but we also have this plant in the house of course ours is really small this one is also growing new leaves in the center so it's really nice as well and I wanted to show you this because it's really cool this is actually a bird made out of plants so we have so much herbias it's like kind of like a moss some some moss at the bottom and it forms the leaves sorry the leaves the wings of the bird it's really beautiful okay you guys so this was a small tour of the island gardens I hope that you enjoyed it if you would like me to make more of these videos make sure to like this video so I know and I'll make more of them so you can enjoy them with me and as always if you would like to be part of this community you're always welcome so make sure to subscribe so we can see each other every week and keep discovering about plants and as always I will see you in the next video okay ciao