The Botanical Garden of Akureyri, north Iceland

[Harald-Alex.]

In the Botanical Garden in the north of Iceland in Akureyri we fond a big "Firework of colourful Flowers". The time, we had, was to short to see all plants intensive, but I think, this fotos will show a little bit of this big surprise!:

Foto 1: The plan of this wonderful Botanical Garden of Acureyri
Foto 2: Deep-orange gardenform of Trollius, ca 60 - 80 cm high!
Foto 3: Paeonia spec. with bright flowers
Foto 4: green borders with different perennials bevor flowering
Foto 5: One of the highlights: the blue Meconopsis, full in flower

[Harald-Alex.]

The Botanical Garden of Acureyri is a juwel of the Botanical Gardens. In our short visit we had wonderful impressions:

Foto 1: The Hous of the Botanics in middle of the garden
Foto 2: In juni 2018 a lot of Clematis was in flower, here a blue one.
Foto 3: a light-blue Clematis with visit of insects, flowers looks like orchideen!
Foto 4: a mix of blue and white Clematis
Foto 5: yellow Doronicum caucasicum feels well in Iceland, the high is 80 - 100 cm!

[Harald-Alex.]

Blue Meconopsis feels well in the Botanical Garden of Acureyri and this plants from Himalaja with the bright-blue flowers are the attraction of the tourists:

Foto 1: A view through the Botanical Garden of Acureyri, feeling as in Switzerland near Lago Maggiore, but here is Iceland!
Foto 2: blue Meconopsis attract most of the visitors!
Foto 3: in middle of other papaveraceae the bright-blue Meconopsis are the "Star"
Foto 4: most of the visitors never have seen such wonderful flowers!
Foto 5: and Meconopsis again and again! :-)

[Harald-Alex.]

many of the flowerplants in the Botanical Garden Acureyri shows a big growing under the day and night- sun of the Iceland summer:

Foto 1: orange-white flowers of Lathyrus cenelinii grows more than 1 m!
Foto 2: a "Goliath" of a Corydalis variety!
Foto 3: a big whiteflowering Ranunculus aconitifolius
Foto 4: Potentilla spec. with many yellow flowers
Foto 5: a deep.blue Aquilegia-like perennial plant

[Harald-Alex.]

The Botanical Garden of Akureyri shows a rich collection of colourful plants:

Foto 1: a shadow-way under Prunus trees with Geum, Paeonia and other flowers
Foto 2: a unknown yellow plant, a Compositaea - Senecio spec?
Foto 3: Penstemon fruticosus with blue flowers
Foto 4: Veronica spec and Festuca glauca in the background
Foto 5: deepblue flowers of Wulfenia sündermannii

[Yann]

so wonderful, the trollius are stunning!

[Harald-Alex.]

In the Botanical Garden of Acureyri grow many trees, some also with flowers, but also many stone-garden like plants in many colours:

Foto 1: rosaflowers of Sorbus cashmiriana or vilmorinii (?), seen in north Iceland!
Foto 2: The entrance of the garden with a collection of Lewisia flowers
Foto 3: a rock-garden partie with different flowers
Foto 4: blue and white rock-garden plants in Akureyri
Foto 5: Penstemon, Bellis, Lewisia and other plant, our last view of this fine Botanical Garden Akureyri - Iceland

[Harald-Alex.]

so wonderful, the trollius are stunning!

Thank You, Yann for your comment and excuse please my mistake, this was Trollius and not Caltha.
This deep-orange trollius catched all our views, as we entered this fine garden! They where huge and I send You a foto with the surrounding of this plant!
Have a good evening, Harald
Your fotoserie about the alpine flora are very fine!

[Gerdk]

Thank you for this lively report!

- so - there are trees and  a wide range of flowering perennials in Iceland!
I must confess that I believed that  more or less grasses and occasionally lower shrubs to be found at
the island. It is never too late to learn!

Gerd

[shelagh]

Wonderful pictures, thank you. Yet another place to add to the list.

[johnralphcarpenter]

It's a long way to Akureyri!

[Harald-Alex.]

Thank you for this lively report!

- so - there are trees and  a wide range of flowering perennials in Iceland!
I must confess that I believed that  more or less grasses and occasionally lower shrubs to be found at
the island. It is never too late to learn!

Gerd

Hallo Gerd, I was surprised too about this rich flora in Iceland, Svalbard and Nordkap/Norway too, the fotos of the Nordkap are comming soon!
Greetings from dry and hot summer of Germany
Harald Alex

[Harald-Alex.]

Wonderful pictures, thank you. Yet another place to add to the list.

Thank You, Shelagh for Your comment, and that You enjoy this flowers too! It was the greatest surprise of our Nordland-Cruise to see so many colourful flowerplants there in Iceland, Svalbard and Norway too!
Greetings to the hearth of England from Harald Alex, Saxonia

[Harald-Alex.]

It's a long way to Akureyri!

Hallo Johnralph, we had a 9000 miles on our "Big Northland Cruise" from Bremen, Iceland, Svalbard, Norway from Nordkap back to Germany and we had wonderful impressions of this countries and people, touristic highlights and especially the flora!
By the way, the distance from Chilmington Green to Akureyri via Belgium, Holland, Germany, Danmark -Hirthals Ferry to Iceland - exactly  2001 miles, but You need 88 hours for this tour :-)...... but You will love the flowers of the Botanical Garden there too!!!
Greetings from Germany
Harald