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The Challenge of Developing Garden Culture in Iceland
Vilhjálmur LúðvíkssonPresident of the Icelandic
Horticultural Society
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1958
2007
Subject:•What is GARDENING- in Iceland?
•THE CHALLENGES:
•The obstacles
•The opportunities
The pioneers
The Role of IHS
Some Measures taken
A Vision of the Future
Growing Fruit Trees in Iceland! –
Are you out of your mind?
1958
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Spring 1958 at Seljadalsáby Hafravatn 20 km East
of Reykjavik
Caveat!
There is no coherent, written history of gardening in Iceland – Only a large volume of
stories and accounts over 125 years.
This is a short personal view based on more than 50 years involvement with forestry and
gardening!
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What is Gardening ? – Enclosure separate from nature? –A relationship of man to nature?
A view of Nature as a Garden (Michael Pollan 1991)
The Icelandic Garden Idyll (Eggert Ólafsson 1760)
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An English Version
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....from this
..to this?
What is challenging to gardening in Iceland
today?
Gardening at the margins!
Against the odds!
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The Challenges:Obstacles:
•The historical context of an ecological disaster
•The climate curse!
•The soil curse!
•The lack of appropriate plants
•The soio-economic limitations
•Recently urbanized society
•Small market – import reliance
The Biodiversity debate and environmentalism!
Man seperated from nature!
Disbelief - Nothing can be grown in Iceland!
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The historical baggage:
Iceland was a rural subsistence until the end of 19th century
Short urban development
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The Curse of Climate:•Variable over periods of time
•Variable spring temperatures
•Frequent high winds, - cold and dry
•Cool summers
• Mid and late winter warmspells followed by frost
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Historical Baggage
The problems of the soil
An ecological disaster!Iceage ends
Katla 1485
Birch peat layer 9000 yrs
Erosion starts ca 1100
Ditch dug here
in 1999
The ditch keeps the record!
Sedge/ dust accumulation t
S
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Challenges: Opportunities:
New land use patterns!
Contained grazing!
A new generation with higher expectations
comes running!
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Challenges:New Opprotunities:
Sprawling summerhouses
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Challenges:Opportunities:
Increasing pu blic interest for gardening information
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Reykjavik Centre about 1880
The highland desert inside the town
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View to Háteigur and the new watertank about 1910 -1920
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Skólavörðustígur from the “Schooltower” ca 1890
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Skólavörðustígur form the tower of frá
Hallgríms-church
anno 2000
,,The Reykjavik area has become the largest forest in
Iceland ”
Sigurður Blöndal – Chief of national Forestry Service
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Hans G Schierbeck
(1847-1911)• Gardening apprentice, Student exam. 1870
•Medical degree 1876
•Professional practice in Copenhagen Graduate training in
•Appointed Chief of National Health in Iceland 1883 against the protest of local officials
•Established a plant nursery at Rauðará and cultivated a large garden inside the ancient Reykjavik graveyard.
• Founded the Icelandic Horticultural Society 1885 - Trained and encouraged Einar Helgason
•Experimented with vegetables, garden plants, shrubs and trees and published the results (Garðyrkjukver 1891)
•Left Iceland in 1894 fed up with official opposition but sorely missed by the public!
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Einar Helgason and his staff of The Plant
Nursery (Gróðrarstöðin) (Established1900)
Harbingers of new times in Iceland !
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About the IHS• Established in 1885 at the initiative
of Schierbeck
• Championing a better life, healtier food, lower infant mortality and cleaner environment !
• One of the oldest free public associations still working in Iceland
• Open to all interested in gardening and improvement of the human enviroment
• Over 2350 memebers now increase of 650 since 2007
• Main effort to educate its members and the public – provide access to plant materials
The impact of IHS can be seen in all communities in Iceland!
The oldest living imported tree planted by Schierbeck in 1884
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Early gardening for vegetables in central Reykavik
Recent gardening for design and color – a measure of developed cultre in private gardening!
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The Valuesof IHS members!
• Creativity – The pleasure of creating gardens and plant associations
• Care- for the plants, environment and social togetherness
• Perseverance- for 125 years. Members don´t give up in the face of adversity and setbacks in working their own gardens
• Curiosity – about trying new varieties and methods to cultivate them in Iceland
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Community Service
• Cooperation with
forestry assaociations
in developing plant
biodiversity in young
plantations
• Útbreiðsla sjaldgæfra
íslenskra tegunda í
ræktarlöndum
• Sjálfboðavinna!
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Extending populations of rare and threatened plant species to new locations.
Asplenium trichomanes
Papaver radicatum, ssp stefanssonii
Rosa spinosissima
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Left: Jóhann Pálsson, botanist and head of the Botanical Garden in Akureyri (Lystigarðurinn) and Director of Reykjavik City Gardens 1985-2001
Right : Óli Valur Hansson, master gardener an influential gardening adviser in the 20th century and organiser of plant collecting expeditions to Alaska and Kamtschatka
Two eminent pioneers and protagonists of garden culuture in Iceland
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Meeting of the te Plant improvement Club 1987
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Ólafur S. Njálsson (now owner of Nátthagi
Nursery) was the main ,,workhorse “of the
project
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The prime interest in species and clones of
genus salix
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Plantcollection expedition to Northern Finland in 2008
Visit to Oulujoen Taimisto
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Snowball viburnum bush (´Pohjan neito’) from Finland
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Salix fragilis var. ´Bullata´
growing in Tornio Finland
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Plant collection expedition at work above the Kolymariver in
Magadan 1989
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The birthday of ‘Embla’
14. febr. 1987 !
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Pétur N. Ólason of Mörk Nursery
Climbing dangerously to collect material for the birch improvement
Februry 1987
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’Embla’ at Suðurlandsbraut 2009
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Preparation for ‘Embla 2’
January 2009
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Seeds from the IHS seed catalogue give access to alpine perennials, shurbs and exotic
trees
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Dwarf irises do weel in the new
woodland bottoms
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Narcissus varieties to particularly well and live
long in Icelandic meadows and woodlands
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Many flowering shrubs bushes and perennials do well in the shelter of trees
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Ahh! - the lure of roses!
A Rose Club was started by IHS in 2002
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The “Rose (trial) Garden” located in the aforestation area of Hafnarfjörður
Forestry Association.
Inaugurated 2005
For informatnion see < http://gardurinn.is/default.asp?sid_id=35253&tre_rod=016|007|&tId=1
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Rosa spinossissma grows here over 13 ha but is protected as a threatened
species. Found in 4-5 other lacoations.
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Jóhann Pálson the pioneer of rose cultivation with some of his introductions
‘Drífa’
‘Hadda’
‘Guðfinna’
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Rosa alba ´Celestial´ is hardy in Iceland
‘Yndisrós’ -Icelandic seedplant
of a rose - lovely and hardy.
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´Hansaland´ and ´Bonica 82´ doing well on an exposed site
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The Association of Nordic Rose Societies founded some 20 years ago.
A Nordic Rose Weekend every two years.
IHS Rose Club joined in Denmark in 2006
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Rosa ‘New Dawn’ is marginal in Iceland
Challenge :Summers too cool for proper blooming and
maturing
Lessons from trials:You have to try, You
cannot rely on hardiness
information from other countries!
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Rosa helenae ´Hybrida´
Very interesting but untried in Iceland – Looks promising
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The IHS Roseclub visited Finland in2007
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A finnish introduction
‘Tähtitorninkatu’ -
Possibly an ancient rose -
‘Blush Damask’
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Sæmundur - The apple pioneer!
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They bloom and bear
fruit!Challenge for fruit
trees late spring frosts and cool
summers for proper maturing!
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Fruit trials project•Cooperation between IHS and IAU started winter 2010-2011
•IHS Members buy plants
•IAU advises and documents progress and results.
•160 members of IHS Participating
•40 in group A and 120 in B
•Received about 1750 plants smáplöntur of over 100 varieties from Blomqvist Plantskola
•Blomqvist has provided an exceptionally clear guidance to selection and care
•Varieties of russion, swedish, finnish and baltic orgins.
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Iceland in Zon 4 -7
(Marginal at Zon 3)
Iceland in Zon 5-8
(Marginal at Zon 4)
Varieties selected by Swedish and Finnish hardiness Zones and experience from recent rose trials
Blomqvist Plantskola
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The Wind is beeing
challenged!
Shelter makes all the difference!
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Peat – fom anerobic marshland -
Undecomposed organic matter
Waterlogged and suffocating silt gravy
Typical monosize particles volcanic erosion deposit –
inorganic prone to waterlogging and dryout.
The lupine has completed its work. Living organisms
abound
Soil becomes a real challenge
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Volcanic sand < 4mm provides air and draining
properties to the silt
Brown silt mixed with volcanic sand (scoria),
horsemanure turns into well draining and fertile soil within half
a year.
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Handy tool for the septogenarian!
,,Soil mixing on location!
Fertile soil ready in 6 months
Curtesy of horsemanure and volcanic sand with help from microrganisms
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An exposed “orchard” !Wind and saltspray
Cherries Sunburts´
Pears
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The Biodiversity DebateAlaska Lupine – a controversial
but useful ally in soil regeneration
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Legumes native and non-native (alien)
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- Unexpected crop of
rasberries
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Selfseeding by birds and wind in lupine regenerated soil!
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Bountiful alien “nature” by invitaiont of lupine and the
Redwing Thrush.
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Non-native? Yes – Invasive ????
First successful nesting reported this summer
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Aliens aggressive on the natives?– Could be!
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What do you want you alien upstart?
We own all fruit trees in this garden!
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The blackbird has come to stay and sings his passionate lovesongs at early daybrake
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Future vision – New opportunities!
• Changing land ownership and land use patterns
• Successful forestry and land reclamation, -improving vegetation
• Rapidly changing apperance of Icelandic countryside ahead
• Environmental interest • Prospects of a warming climate • Interest in biodiversity• Need for bottom-up social
initiative to provide information and pioneering leadership
• IHS Strategi – from inward to outward looking!
• International cooperation !
Financial Crash- Values re-evalued
“Tend to your own garden !”
“New and better Iceland!”
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Final message:
Those of us that remember Iceland as it was in the mid 20th century could never have dreamed of the gardens we see to day and the plants that, with creativity, curiosity, care and perseverance are
grown here today!
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Thanks for listening!