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Reader Rock Garden, Calgary

A stone path through Reader Rock Garden in Calgary, photographed in 2014.
A stone path through Reader Rock Garden in Calgary, photographed in 2014. Reader rock garden and cafe Calgary (14339374190) · Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Reader Rock Garden in Calgary is an Arts and Crafts-style alpine rockery laid out on a steep hillside by William R. Reader, the city’s parks superintendent from 1913 to 1942. Its planting beds tested and showed off what could grow in Calgary, challenging the belief that southern Alberta’s climate was too harsh for agriculture and horticulture.

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The garden and its founder, not Calgary’s park system as a whole.

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