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The origin of province flowers came from the American idea of state flowers, and was brought to Sweden by August Wickström and Paul Petter Waldenström in 1908. Waldenström published the proposal to introduce province flowers in the May 288, 1908 edition of the newspaper Stockholms Dagblad , and requested suggestions of species from the ...
Botanical gardens in Sweden feature collections of living plants for research, education, and conservation. While some focus on native and endemic Swedish species, most include plants from around the world. These gardens and arboreta are found across Sweden, administered by universities, local governments, and occasionally private entities.
Carl Linnaeus (sw. Carl von Linné), (1707–1778), the botanist, often called the father of taxonomy or "The flower-king", was born in Älmhult in Småland. He gave the twinflower its Latin name based on his own (Latin: Linnaea borealis), because of his particular fondness of it. The flower has become Småland's provincial flower.
The Live Oaks are grown from handpicked acorns of the historic Live Oak trees at Airlie Gardens. After five years of dedicated cultivation, these direct descendants of the historic Airlie Oaks are ...
The Gothenburg Botanical Garden is situated in a formerly completely rural area, where earlier a great country estate named Stora Änggården was located. The garden was initially funded by a donation from the Charles Felix Lindberg Foundation, in special memory of Charles Felix Lindberg himself. Lindberg was a Swedish businessman and donor ...
The rose garden was found in 1988 and today over 100 different species are cultivated there. The rose garden is situated on a slope just beside the old orangery and is perfect for cultivating roses. Due to the harsh rose climate in Sweden Rosendals Trädgård mostly cultivate bush roses which have favourable properties, such as hardiness.
August 17th, 1977, the day after "the King of Rock and Roll" died, set the record for most flowers sold in the US on a single day. According to then-Associated Press reporter Mark Knoller, who ...
Östergötland (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈœ̂sːtɛrˌjøːtland] ⓘ; English exonym: East Gothland) [2] is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish) in the south of Sweden. It borders Småland, Västergötland, Närke, Södermanland and the Baltic Sea. In older English literature, the Latinized version Ostrogothia is ...
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