Toronto Botanical Garden spring blooms

Crocus, tulips, narcissus and others at the TBG

I took advantage of the beginning of a stretch of warmer than average days (about time!) in Toronto and visited the TBG for the first time this season. Only the crocuses were blooming but the tulips and narcissus are emerging quickly so photos for these bloomers will follow.

If you're like me, you're starved for colour outside so enjoy the crocus for now, along with a shrubby friend (can you guess the genus?)

Pale blue crocus spring blooms
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Pale blue crocus spring bloom
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White crocus spring blooms
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Yellow crocus spring bloom
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Pale blue crocus spring bloom
detail Toronto Botanical Garden 

Yellow crocus spring blooms
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Hamamelis x intermedia "Primavera"
witch hazel Toronto Botanical Garden 

(Update: April 21, 2014)

"Katharine Hodgkin" Iris
(Iris reticulata "Katharine Hodgkin")
  spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

"Golden Yellow" Crocus x luteus  spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

Helleborus x hybridus
dark purple double hellebore
 spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

Tulipa kaufmanniana (Waterlily tulip)
spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

Eranthis hyemalis (winter aconite)
spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

Mauve Crocus vernus spring
2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

Danford Iris (Iris danfordiae)
spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

Dutch crocus (Crocus vernus "Pickwick")
 2014 spring Toronto Botanical Garden 

Chionodoxa forbesii 'Pink Giant'
 (Glory of the Snow)
 spring 2014 Toronto Botanical Garden 

White, purple and yellow crocus
spring blooms Toronto Botanical Garden

I couldn't help but to sneak these in (they'll be on display late in May and June).

"Bartzella" Intersectional Itoh Peony
(Paeonia x Bartzella) 

Paeonia ostii 'Feng Dan Bai'
 ("Phoenix White") tree peony 

"Buckeye Belle" Paeonia lactiflora
("Buckeye Belle" herbaceous peony)