Floral Showhouse

Niagara Falls


Around 1km south of Horseshoe Falls, the Showhouse offers year-round floral displays – mostly orchids, succulents and other tropical plants – and some warm respite on chilly days. Opposite, lodged on rocks in the rapids, the Old Scow is a rusty steel barge that's been waiting to be washed over the falls since 1918 – a teetering symbol of Western imperialism, perhaps?


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