Secret Gardens
Above: The centuryold conservatory at the Experimental Farm was closed for five years while it was refurbished, reopening in 2015 Right: Aquatopia Garden Water Conservatory boasts a greenery-filled pondside café, open six days a week for breakfast and light lunch Oh, to be one of the lucky few with a giant sunroom in your home, an always-warm space designed to make the most of the sun’s rays. But the rest of us need not despair as temperatures plummet and the snow flies. Two flora-filled greenhouses make the perfect cold-weather retreat for warmth-starved Ottawans — beautiful, calming and, most important of all, open to the public. The sunniest days are invariably the coldest, but you’d never know it in these sun-drenched atria.