Iceland: Akureyri Botanical Garden
Just 100 km south of the Arctic Circle, Iceland’s second largest town Akureyri (pop. approx. 20,000) boasts a mostly ice-free port and one of the most charming Botanical Gardens I have visited so far. My visit at the beginning of August coincided with the explosive bloom of thousands of delphiniums in a rainbow of blue hues.
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- The original garden shed with delphiniums
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- Bees fighting for pollen on Cosmos flower
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- Blue-tipped white delphinium
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- Blue delphinium with dark heart
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- Visitor matches the flowers
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- Chilling out by the pond
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- Akureyri Botanical Garden path
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- Decorated garden shed wall
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- Delphinium
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- Rutaceae Dictamus albus
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- Rosaceae Potentilla cinerea
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- Icelandic Fraises du Bois
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- Pink & white columbine
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- Iceland poppy
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- Burst of dainty orange
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- Pale blue-gray thistle with bee
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- Zen-Aida in delphinium heaven
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- 1912 Commemorative plaque of the founding of the garden
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- Nasturtiums and Lobellia mix
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- Explosion of Delphiniums
Started in 1912 by a group of local women, the garden has expanded to its current 3.6 ha., it is also meant to serve as a gene and seed bank for trees, shrubs and flowers native to Northern Iceland and other plants that are hardy in that part of the world. Currently, they have about 500 native and 6000 foreign specimens. If you are interested in one of the native Icelandic plants, you can even order some seeds to grow yourself!
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Danke!! Herrlich! Grüße! Ariane
garden sheds are really great specially during the summer, they provide adequate shade and a place to cool down~'"
garden sheds can provide comfort specially in the hot summer months "*"