"Tropical" island in Norway

[flipper]

I have just been a trip to "Flor & Fjaere" here in Stavanger, Norway.
http://goo.gl/maps/HWnq2


It is an amazing garden on an island just outside Stavanger, maintaind by a family businsess.

They have 35000 guests from may till september.

Thought I'd share a "few" pics...

























































http://florogfjare.no/english

[stephenprudence]

wow didn't expect that.. are those Phoenix palms in there permanently? Clearly warmer than here if they can grow like that! What sort of temperatures does this garden get in winter?

[flipper]

wow didn't expect that.. are those Phoenix palms in there permanently? Clearly warmer than here if they can grow like that! What sort of temperatures does this garden get in winter?

No, they are brought indoors during winter.
They did have a Yucca Faxonia that is planted out.

The Tracharpus Fortuneis, Musa Basjoos and Bamboos are out all year round.
The Musa Basjoos have been there for 7 years.

The temperature here never get below -10, but even that is rare. Normally just a few minus for a few days at a time.
(But that last few winters have not been normal...)

Each spring they plant out 50 000 flowers!

They are only 5 people that tend the garden!

[GREVILLE]

Only five carers for this spectacular garden.......? Nor..Way! (Sorry, couldn't resist :lol)

[fern Rob]

What a great garden

[Alexander]

wow didn't expect that.. are those Phoenix palms in there permanently? Clearly warmer than here if they can grow like that! What sort of temperatures does this garden get in winter?

No, they are brought indoors during winter.
They did have a Yucca Faxonia that is planted out.

The Tracharpus Fortuneis, Musa Basjoos and Bamboos are out all year round.
The Musa Basjoos have been there for 7 years.

The temperature here never get below -10, but even that is rare. Normally just a few minus for a few days at a time.
(But that last few winters have not been normal...)

Each spring they plant out 50 000 flowers!

They are only 5 people that tend the garden!

Thats amazing! Those must be the most northerly permanent outside growing bananas and palms in the World at 59 degrees north! With summers much shorter and cooler then at my latitude at 52 degrees north! And many people here are still not believing we can grow them back home outside...

Well done.

Alexander

[Jo A P]

No colder than -10°! Even we get to -8° for a few days! Beautiful garden, it looks very labour intensive so with only 5 people tending it they must work flat out! The botanical garden I saw in Pisa had some fabulous plants, but it's a bit of a mess and is much smaller than that

[GoggleboxUK]

Amazing garden and great pics, thanks for sharing

[cheshirepalms]

Amazing stuff, absolutely love it, are the CIDPs pot plunged then?

[billdango]

Its a pity that the boring parks in the UK can't be made to look like that.

The lack of imagination by our City fathers is incredible.

They have even removed most of the exotics in Southampton parks because most people think that growing exotics in the UK isn't possible.

Even the Victorians did better.

I just hope and pray that sometime soon someone will do something about this and UK gardening will move forward out of the dark ages.

Thank you Norway for pointing out the correct way forward.

billdango

[Clive60]

Puts most of our parks to shame, the palms must be an amazing site for visitors. Thanks for sharing.

[Alexander]

In Stavanger the average maximum temperature in the warmest time of the year is 17 C in July and August. Here in The Hague thats 21 C so 4 degrees warmer. Also our winters are milder the in Stavanger.

See: www.klimaat.info

Alexander

[Conifers]

In Stavanger the average maximum temperature in the warmest time of the year is 17 C in July and August. Here in The Hague thats 21 C so 4 degrees warmer. Also our winters are milder the in Stavanger.

See: http://www.klimaat.info

Alexander

The main advantage that Stavanger has is that it is protected by the Norwegian mountains from cold dry Siberian blasts from the east; The Hague doesn't have that.

[flounder]

Shows what is possible in a public area with a bit of hard work and the absence of moronic, piffed up vandals

[flipper]

Shows what is possible in a public area with a bit of hard work and the absence of moronic, piffed up vandals

It must be said that this is not a public area or park as such. It is a privately owned garden and resturant, and the price per person for admitance, including a nice meal, a guided tour and the boatride from the city is about £90, or € 125, so it not cheap... - and with 35.000 visitors each year their budget is probably way bigger than any public park...

Our mild climate is mainly due to the Gulf-stream bringing warm water from the Atlanitc, and warm (and wet) westerly winds.
But yes, it also makes it cooler in summer.


But still we just had a full week with temperatures around 25C!