With its leggy white tulips, literal primrose paths and stalks of violet delphiniums stretching to the sky, Les Quatre Vents, the Canadian estate of Frank and Anne Perkins Cabot is a tribute to the glory of horticulture in all its forms — at least all the forms the Quebec climate will permit.

“The Gardener,” directed by Sébastien Chabot, relies on previously recorded narration by Mr. Cabot, who died in 2011. Mr. Cabot refers to himself as a “master plagiarist” for purloining ideas from gardens he visited on his travels to Nepal, European cities and India, and employing them at home. The result is a dazzling series of separate outdoor scenes that open onto one another, with each framing a view of the next, or the St. Lawrence River beyond. The sights are enchanting, especially when the camera lingers on the Japanese garden, which was years in the making, or the charming pigeonnier, or the Chinese moon bridge set on a reflecting pond.