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urbpanYes, Greenland has an Arboretum, and wouldn't you know it, it's right behind our hotel.
Most of the woody plants we saw were tiny birch and willow shrubs, clinging tenaciously to the rocky soil. Considering how unwelcoming the climate is for so much of the year, they are impressive little plants. The taller trees in the arboretum are evergreens native to Alaska and Siberia, cultivated in Norway and brought to Greenland. "The goal of the Arboretum is to establish a collection of trees and bushes from both the alpine and the arctic tree-lines of the Northern Hemisphere. "
I was happy to find a mycorryhzzal mushroom there.
I was looking down on the cones of this tiny mature conifer, a vantage that I'm not used to. This is pitch, not ice.
Some of the local rocks needed some standing up, so they could see the fjord.
Most of the woody plants we saw were tiny birch and willow shrubs, clinging tenaciously to the rocky soil. Considering how unwelcoming the climate is for so much of the year, they are impressive little plants. The taller trees in the arboretum are evergreens native to Alaska and Siberia, cultivated in Norway and brought to Greenland. "The goal of the Arboretum is to establish a collection of trees and bushes from both the alpine and the arctic tree-lines of the Northern Hemisphere. "
I was happy to find a mycorryhzzal mushroom there.
I was looking down on the cones of this tiny mature conifer, a vantage that I'm not used to. This is pitch, not ice.
Some of the local rocks needed some standing up, so they could see the fjord.
