Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: ViggoU on June 05, 2015, 01:44:30 PM
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Hello everybody!
From time to time there are some people who say that they would like to visit this garden.
I will try to give you an impression of what the garden look like during this season.
My first visit this year was 29th April, and the following images are from that visit.
The entrance to the garden:
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An old house has been moved from the city center to the garden. The house is a now a small cafe open during the summer months. To the right is a building looking like a old barn, but it contain facilities for the staff.
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In late April it is not much in flower, but the native Saxifraga oppositifolia had started the show.
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The garden contains lot of stones. There are mountains designed to different parts of the world, like Caucasus, South America, Himalaya and so one. There are also areas for specific group of plants like Primula and Saxifraga.
Here is a view of the Caucasus area.
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To be continued....
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It is hard to understand how high the bulid-up mountains are when there are no people around.
The garden does also have a big collection of old plants. The plants has been collected from a lot of different gardens in the North of Norway. I will post more of this later i the season.
The next posting will be from a visit 1st of June.
SRGC-Primula x pubescens
SRGC-myosotis-pulvinaris
SRGC-saxifraga-ludlowii.
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Viggo - great idea to make this thread - thank you!
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Maybe need a Elk to show the scale? ;D
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Very interesting Viggo. In July, we come to Norway and we will stay one night in Tromso. It is a tour with a group, so I hope to have some time to visit the garden.
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Hi Herman, we too are visiting this wonderful garden - but we don't arrive until early August, so we hope you can leave one or two things in flower for us until we arrive. We are anticipating our visit with great relish and just hope that the sun shines on our days in this stunning location. Many thanks Viggo for this super post.
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Looking forward to future instalments :)
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Hello!
Thank you for Your comments!
Maggi, I do not think an Elk would be very much welcomed in the garden :D
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I made a visit to the garden on 1st of June. By this time there was a lot of interesting plants i flower. The Saxifraga's was a little bit over the top, but still made a good show.
Here are some from the Saxifraga Collection:
SRGC-saxifraga-collection
SRGC-saxifraga-sp
SRGC-saxifraga-corymbosa
SRGC-saxifraga-sp.
SRGC-saxifraga-longifolia-planting
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And here are some images from the Primula collection:
SRGC-primula-calderiana
SRGC-primula-longipetiolata
SRGC-primula-obstusifolia-x-macrophylla
SRGC-primula-aff-sinoplantaginea
SRGC-primula-crassifolia
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More Primula......
SRGC-primula-purdomii
SRGC-primula-x-pub-colletcion
SRGC-primula-x-pub-ii
SRGC-primula-x-pub-iii
SRGC-primuls-x-pub-i
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The garden contains plants from alpine areas from all over the world.
SRGC-adonis-pyrenaica.
SRGC-geranium-nanum.
SRGC-myototis-sp,-eyre-mts,-nz.
SRGC-paraquilegia-sp.
SRGC-claytonia-megarhiza
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The last ones this time:
SRGC-ranunculus-wilanderi, -svalbard
SRGC-saxifraga-stolitzkae
SRGC-caucasus-plants
SRGC-meconopsis-quintuplinervia
SRGC-meconopsis-integrifolia
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Viggo, very beautiful! A lot of difficult plants.
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Many thanks for showing us the pictures from Tromso Viggo - time for another trip north to see this great garden agian I think.
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A huge great idea to show us this garden, thanks very much! This is a real myth for alpine plants lovers.
I am very surprised to see plants flowering now with snowmelt in late april. Meconopsis quintuplinervia for example, it looks like it only needs one month there to really come out of the wintersleep to flowering stage.
They are just flowering in the garden here, and snow has disappeared a good 6 to 8 weeks ago at this place.
But Tromso must have daily almost 15 to 20 hours of light in may I guess, and this is litteraly bursting the plant round the clock.
I always wondered how they could adapt so well to that rythm, when coming from more southern places where there is much less day light in the growth period. Coming towards SW China high mountains for example near the tropic of cancer means probably not more than 14/15 hours of day in summer, and Tromso gets then soon 24hours of light!
Very interesting. Keep on posting !
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On the evening 09/07/2015 between 20 and 22, I have been visiting the botanical garden. I couldn't believe my eyes what I saw growing there.
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Some more pictures.
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Some flowers: Meconopsis henrici, Mertensia primuloides, Incarvillea zhongdianensis, Primula ioessa and Caltha palustris, Lewisia brachycalix
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More flowers: Cypripedium 'Gisela', Cypripedium macranthum, Cypripedium tibeticum, Cypripedium reginae
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Gentiana nubigena, Gentiana algida, Gentiana purdomii and Gentiana lutea
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Ranunculus parnassifolius, Lewisia tweedyi, Rhododendron camschaticum, Meconopsis 'Lingholm', Meconopsis integrifolia
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Aquilegia glandulosa ssp. jucunda, Primula tanneri ssp. nepalensis, Cirsium spinosissimum, Leontopodium alpinum, Edraianthus graminifolius subsp. siculus
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This garden is one of the wonders of the world, I think. Imagine seeing Cypripedium, Meconopsis and Tulipa all in flower together in July!!!!
Extraordinary - and my word- how beautiful is that Rhododendron camschaticum? Really a superb example. 8) 8)
I think you will have really enjoyed your visit, Herman! :)
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Saxifraga aquatica. It was to early for the asiatic gentians, but all the plants looked very healthy. So I surely must visit that garden again at another time of the year. Monty Don was quite right when he said that this garden belongs to the top 5.
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This garden is one of the wonders of the world, I think. Imagine seeing Cypripedium, Meconopsis and Tulipa all in flower together in July!!!!
Extraordinary - and my word- how beautiful is that Rhododendrom camscathicum? Really a superb example. 8) 8)
I think you will have really enjoyed your visit, Herman! :)
Maggi, indeed we enjoyed our short visit very much. We were doing a trip with a group from Trondheim,Mo i Rana, Svolvær, Tromsø till Honningsvåg and then back to Rovaniemi. Then a flight to Brussels. So we stayed only one night in Tromso, but it was a beautiful night (the sun didn't go down).