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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Magnar on June 12, 2008, 09:02:08 PM

Title: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Magnar on June 12, 2008, 09:02:08 PM

Some impressions from Tromsø Botanic Garden and private gardens in the area this week:

Tromsø is there in the distance. If yuo look closely you can see the bridge.
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1922.jpg)

Pulsatilla aurea
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1923.jpg)

Ranunculus sulphureus
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1925.jpg)

Great auricula
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1926.jpg)

Paraquilegia
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1931.jpg)

Nice combination
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1963.jpg)

Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/DSCF1967.jpg)

Primula strumosa
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106698.jpg)

Saxifraga x borisii
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106701%20Sax%20x%20borisii.jpg)

Saxifraga iranica
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106703%20Sax%20iranica.jpg)

Saxifrages
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106705.jpg)

Saxifraga scardica
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106713%20sax%20scardica.jpg)

More to come

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Carlo on June 12, 2008, 09:18:55 PM

FANTASTIC! Can't wait to see more from this fabulous garden. I seem to recall that it's the northern-most botanical garden....

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 12, 2008, 09:46:24 PM

An amazing place Magnar. Please post HEAPS more pictures. :D Pulsatilla aurea! Oh God!

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: ranunculus on June 12, 2008, 09:57:56 PM

Super images of wonderful plants Magnar ... many thanks once again for your excellent postings.

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Magnar on June 13, 2008, 08:02:06 AM

More from Tromsø

Vialiana primuliflora
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106720.jpg)

Gentiana verna group
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106721.jpg)

Primula Johanna
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106723.jpg)

A few Rhododendrons had started to bloom:
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106726.jpg)

(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106727.jpg)

(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106728.jpg)

Primula rosea
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106736.jpg)

Phlox pulvinata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106738.jpg)

Auriculas
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106740.jpg)

Pulsatilla
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106741.jpg)

New crevice garden
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106743.jpg)

More to come

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on June 13, 2008, 08:14:06 AM

Magnar,
It's been a while since I used the word, but I'm flabbergasted !  ;D
Stunning pictures of plants that seem to enjoy themselves thoroughly !  That Gentiana Verna (like so many other plants) is out of this world !!!  ;D
I hope you have many more pix to show !
Thanks a lot

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 13, 2008, 10:56:26 AM

An amazing crevice garden. Utterly perfect!

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 13, 2008, 12:06:03 PM

Amazing crevice garden. Dwarfs that house! Cool pond too. Even has boats on it! 8)

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Ian Minty on June 13, 2008, 02:08:26 PM

Excellent pictures from an amazing garden Magnar thanks. ;D

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2008, 01:21:20 PM

Quote from: adarby on June 13, 2008, 12:06:03 PM

Amazing crevice garden. Dwarfs that house! Cool pond too. Even has boats on it! 8)

Your teasing is fun, Anthony, though I suspect that the implication that Mrs Aspakar,the lovely Toril, seen standing beside the crevice garden is thus a giantess, might go down less well! ;)

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2008, 01:24:05 PM

May I suggest a visit to Magnar's website: http://magnar.aspaker.no/

Always something good to see there and today I see that he has a new book out, too  8)

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Magnar on June 14, 2008, 07:18:58 PM

Last part of the Tromsø trip. Glad you liked the photos. A pity the Meconopises were not flowering yet.

Ranunculus insignis
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106711.jpg)

Primula marginata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106717.jpg)

Primla denticulata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106749.jpg)

Kalmia
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106757.jpg)

Mandragora caulescens
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/P6106760.jpg)

Stone age carvings in a private garden
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/stone%20age%20carvings.jpg)

Going home along the fjord
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/near%20tromso.jpg)

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: hadacekf on June 14, 2008, 08:19:13 PM

Super pictures from  amazing plants  Magnar thanks.

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 15, 2008, 12:15:51 AM

That statue in the second to last picture to me looks much more recent than stone age. :D Lovely to see R. insignis looking brilliant so far from home.

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: Magnar on June 15, 2008, 06:58:34 AM

Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 15, 2008, 12:15:51 AM

That statue in the second to last picture to me looks much more recent than stone age. :D Lovely to see R. insignis looking brilliant so far from home.

The carvings are in a cliff close to a friend's home. They are really stone age, but have recently been painted to show better.

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: WimB on June 15, 2008, 03:04:58 PM

Those rock carvings look really great, since I'm an archaeologist I would really like to have those in my garden :) but we haven't got them in Belgium except in some caves in the ardennes.

Title: Re: Tromsø June 9 -10.
Post by: David Nicholson on June 15, 2008, 07:44:31 PM

A wonderful set of pictures Magnar thanks for posting them.