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Circumpolar Digital Image Collection
The Circumpolar Digital Image Collection is a collection of photos, slides, other images and contributions shared by many of the University of Alberta’s polar researchers. Images in the collection may be used for teaching and research purposes. For any other use, please contact the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
Items in this Collection
- 6Gardens - Arctic Regions
- 3Northern Gardens
- 1Alottments - Finland
- 1Alottments - Ostersund, Sweden
- 1Arctic and Alpine Botanic Garden - Tromsø, Norway
- 1Asteracea
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2024-06-12
Typical of lower latitudes including Iceland, southern Norway, southern Sweden and western Europe, these plants were blooming in a flower bed near the harbour in Tromsø, in northern Norway in mid-June 2024.
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2018-06-18
In a large apartment development, some of the green space has been converted to alottments, where people grow vegetables and flowers. In this image there are potatoes, chives, peonies and rhubarb. The netted structures covered strawberries.
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2024-06-13
In mid-June, 2024, this flower bed at the foot of the Town Green in Tromsø, Norway was in full bloom. Tulips are the centerpiece of this planting.
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2024-06-08
This pond is one of several water features in the Arctic and Alpine Botanic Garden (latitude 69.6769° N) in Tromsø, Norway. A small water fall feeds the pond from the higher elevations in the garden. A mallard duck sits on the grass near the centre of the image. This garden is the northernmost...
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2024-06-16
These tall petunia planters were bright splashes of colour outside the metalic and glass facade of the Public Library in Tromsø, Norway. They were in full bloom in mid-June, 2024.
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2018-06-15
This list of vegetables that grow well in Rovaniemi's Community Garden was pasted to the bulletin board at the garden. Column 1 (top to bottom): potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips, radishes, peas, broad beans, scarlet runner bans, spinach, silver beets, chilis, peppers, rhubarb. Column 2...