My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø
How Norway became a country is shrouded in mystery and folklore. The most well known tale is of Harald Hårfagre who gathered the small kingdoms of the north into a unified nation in 872AD – and of course, this story is about love.
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
From the west, a wall of stone Saints and Prophets will confront you. All sides of the Cathedral are very textured and deserve a long walk around. You’ll see gargoyles and gothic arches, thick wooden doors with rusty floral art and Anglo-Norman/Romanesque bits and pieces ‘stuck on’ that intensifies your ground view. However, the outside of Nidaros Cathedral is even more intriguing when you know the history.
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Flower Show Series: Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø
This is our view to the west. After work the shore becomes alive with activity. Tromsøværing (the Tromsø folk) make the most of the afternoon sun with fishing, jogging and rollerskiing.
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Even though the males are called bulls and the females cows, the muskoxen are more closely related to sheep than cattle. Make no mistake, though – this is not your average cuddly ba-ba-blacksheep! A grown animal can be 2,5 m long and weigh up to 400 kgs, and their long curved horns mean business.
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These two articles are mislabeled. This flower is most definitely a Bachelor’s Button while the flower in this article
http://mylittlenorway.com/2009/07/white-bachelors-buttons-arctic-garden/
Is definitely not.
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from L-Jay:
We got the names from the little tags beside the plants in the Arctic garden. We are pretty sure the botanists there know what they are talking about. Maybe someone has being playing swapsies? However, the term ‘bachelor’s button’ is very common and a variety of flowers fall under this name. In fact, it seems that the flower with the post title ‘bachelor’s buttons’ is a lay term for this flower in Norway. However, just because we called one ‘buttons’ in the title and not the other doesn’t mean they are not both ‘buttons’. The picture is the point of the post and the fact that they grow in an Arctic garden, it is not meant to be a botanist catalogue. Hence, some posts are just called ‘white flower’ or ‘pink flower’.