My Little Norway – Flower Show Series
Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø
The Bunad with molded wool, embroidered cuffs and silver stitching is still not complete without its silverwork.
I think Autumn is my favourite season in Norway – the weather is still warm here in Tromsø, the sunsets come down over the mountains again and the blueberries are ripe for the picking.
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Table settings are very much a part of the tradition of serving cake.
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.
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Traditional Norwegian cuisine is based on natural resources.
Our family activities have become traditional to the seasons…
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’.