If you are interested in seeing this attraction close up, click below for detailed instructions to its location! Once you arrive, you can park your car, pay for a parking ticket, and enjoy this site!

Directions to the Site!

Of all the other sites on the tour, this Floral Clock in Niagara Falls is likely the most popular among tourists. It can be seen clearly from the Niagara Parkway when travelling from Niagara Falls to Niagara on the Lake, and it is one of the first things that Falls-bound American visitors will come across after travelling across the Queenston–Lewiston bridge. For Niagara residents, travelling along this beautiful parkway is a very popular pastime. There is also a very large park onsite where tourists and locals can have a picnic, or just relax and enjoy the scenery.

The clock was originally built in 1950 by Ontario Hydro, and is maintained today by both the Niagara Parks Commission horticulture staff and Ontario Power Generation. The clock itself is a huge garden of flowers with two silver hands on top, and a large bell tower behind it. The flowers are changed twice a year to include various carpet bedding plants for the changing seasons, and their intricate designs are created with up to 20,000 plants. The flowers shown in these images are Santolina chamaecyparissus (lavender cotton or gray santolina), Duranta repens (Dwarf Yellow), and many varieties of Alternanthera called Green Threadleaf, Disney Pink, Grenadine, and Rosea Nana.

At the back of the clock is a small bell tower. The bell chimes every 15 minutes, which can be heard in this video. During certain times of the year, the groundkeepers will open the back door to the tower and visitors can see the bell and the inside mechanics of the clock. If this tower is open, visitors can also see photographs of almost every design of the clock since 1950.

To see the clock, pull into the parking lot off the Niagara Parkway, following the many signs on the road that invite visitors into the park. This parking lot requires you to purchase a parking pass from one of the meters or from an app on their smartphone. Then, you can wander around the park, see the clock close up from the wheelchair accessible paths, and even go across the parkway to the fence to see a gorgeous view of the Niagara gorge.

In this 2019 street view, you can see the parking lot, the path to the clock, and some of the surrounding park. Consult previous Google Street View images to see planting patterns on the clock that differ from the photos on this page.

Niagara Parks. "Floral Clock." Niagara Parks, www.niagaraparks.com/visit/nature-garden/floral-clock/.