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The Mosaïcultures Internationale competition was founded back in 2000 by Lise Cormier after her visit to China: this is where Lisa saw an enchanting 40-feet-high sculpture of 3 doves and was instantly inspired to bring the idea back home.  Considered the world's most prestigious competition of horticultural art, the 2013 edition of Mosaiculture was on display at Montreal Botanical Garden in Quebec, Canada. More than three million flowers were raised in greenhouses throughout Quebec, and then shipped to the gardens in May, where designers wrapped them in steel meshes to create living works of art. The sculptures are created using steel or aluminum forms that are wrapped in metal mesh, filled with earth and planted with flowers, ivies and grasses whose foliage provides texture and color. Interior watering systems and growing medium were added so that the flowers could last all through the summer till the end of the exhibition on September 29, 2013.  Some 50 works graces the 2.2 km circuit through the enchanting grounds of the Botanical Garden. The theme this year is "Land of Hope". About 200 of the world's most talented horticultural artists took part in this international competition, representing 20 countries. Entries have come from cities in countries as far as Turkey and Uganda, with China and Japan heavily represented.

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Bird Tree

This huge sculpture is 40 feet high and they built special high bridge at this end so people could take photographs more easily. Every branch becomes a different bird. The wing span of the condor must be at least 8 feet.

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Big Flowers

These are growing in the midst of the Exhibition Gardens, some of the thirty gardens which comprise the Botanic Garden. Notice the bee.

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Butterflies

They are about eight feet high and stand outside the Insectarium, a building housing exhibits of insects.

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Two Canoes

The theme of this year's show is the unity of nature and the importance of ecological planning.

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The Old Man Who Planted Trees, Horses, Dog, and Sheep

The Old Man is about 20 feet high.  Flock of Sheep, plus one goat. They are all part of a huge display around the Man Who Planted Trees.

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Flock of Sheep 

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Single Sheep

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Caterpillar, Outside Insectarium

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Easter Island Heads

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Blow Fish Swimming through Seaweed

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Crouching Frog and Lily Pond.

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Frog in Lily Pond

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Goat at Well

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Horses and Sheep Dog

The dog is very famous in Japan and everyone knows him. He accompanied his master to the railroad station ever morning when the man went to work, and then the dog met him again in the evening. When the man died, the dog continued meeting the train twice every day for ten years until he died. He is made up of various decorative grasses. The horses' manes are also made of grasses. The horses are twice the size of a normal horse; the dog is 8 feet high.

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Closeup of Horse

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Lady and Cranes / Chinese Myth. The lady is about 35 feet high.

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Lady and Cranes / Chinese Myth

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Line of Lemurs at entrance to Gardens

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Lemurs

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Man Who Planted Trees. He is 20 feet high.

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Pandas and Bamboo

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Pandas

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Piano and Tortoise / The Arts and Nature Support Each Other

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Spirit of the Woods.

The body of the serpent actually snakes around the woods for more than 300 yards.

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Phoenix Bird - Colossal With Flowers

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Mother Earth

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Water is a Gift of Mother Earth and Enjoyed by Wild Horses and Eagles

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 Swans

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Gorillas / Endangered Species

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Moose and Squirrels 

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Cobras

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