>What a terrific week to start our blog! There are many plants in bloom this week, just in time for Doors Open on the weekend.
The Entry Garden Walk
Tulipa’Don Quichotte’
Tulipa ‘Purple Dream’
Tulipa’Jazz’
Baptisia ‘Purple Smoke’
Tulipa ‘Lilac Wonder’
Polygonatumx hybridum
Allium ‘Purple Sensation’
In the Terrace Garden
Phlox douglasii ‘Cracker Jack’
Aubrietia ‘Purple Cascade’
Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue’
In the Knot Garden
Iris germanica ‘Immortality’
Anemone multifida ‘Annabelle White’
Aquilegia flabellata ‘Alba’
Anemone sylvestris ‘Snowdrop’
In the President’s Choice Show Garden
Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Feng Dian Bai’
Cercis canadensis
Aquilegia canadensis
Camassia leichtlinii
Syringa ‘Bailbelle’
In the Water Garden
Geum coccineum ‘Werner Arends’
In the Westview Terrace
Helleborus foetidus
Cercis canadensis’Alba’
Viburnum x burkwoodii
Cercis canadensis ‘Covey’
In the Garden Hall Courtyard
Trollius laxus
Gentiana wutaiensis
Trollius x cultorum ‘Cheddar’
In the Kitchen Garden
Various types of Clematis are climbing up the Kitchen Garden fence.
Clematis
about the author: Sandra Pella
Sandra Pella has worked as Head Gardener of the Toronto Botanical Garden since 2008. She holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, and upon graduation worked in the financial sector until the pull of plants was too much to resist, whereupon she found herself at Janet Anderson Perennials (formerly JEA Perennials) as a horticultural technician. She has been the Perennial Manager at Summerhill Nursery & Floral followed by the Assistant Horticulturist at the TBG prior to its renovation. Sandra worked as a Gardener for two seasons with the City of Toronto as well as seasonal Gardener for the TBG prior to being named Head Gardener. She is self-taught in the field and thus greatly appreciated the experience a gardening internship in 2009 at Great Dixter in the UK brought to her. Sandra has a regular What’s In Bloom blog and is one of the spokespeople for the TBG.
