Gardens of Light illuminates Montreal's autumn nights

The annual Gardens of Light event at Montreal's Botanical Gardenstarts today, and three gardens will be illuminated for the event.

The Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Garden will be lit up with a total of 900handmade lanterns and projectors for the festival.

To get a sense of what to expect, CBC Montreal visited the gardens to get a sneak peek of the show.

Watch the video to go behind the scenes as the lanterns are set up.

Gardens of Light runs from Sept. 7 to Oct. 31.Information is available on theBotanical Gardenwebsite.

Because of the high number of visitors, this year the Botanical Gardenis requiring people topick a specific time for a visitwhen they purchase a ticket.

Visitors are also being asked to use public transportation to get to the Botanical Garden, because theparking lot fills up quickly.