Post by 4wd on Jan 11, 2019 12:56:21 GMT
Happened across this rather surprising article about what can grow in Iceland.
It isn't much further north than the northern Isles so perhaps not a total surprise, like here winters can be relatively mild at least in sheltered areas near the coast.
docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgardurinn.is%2FFiles%2FSkra_0064087.pdf
They have also had considerable success establishing new woodland which until recently was almost completely absent, other than fragments in sheltered gullies.
Although grazing animals have not helped, repeated glaciation meant only small areas were wooded when people settled there.
www.skogur.is/en/forestry/forestry-in-a-treeless-land/history-of-forests-in-iceland
Much of the interior is still too inhospitable but there are areas of Arctic willow and a few shrubby plants like heather
It isn't much further north than the northern Isles so perhaps not a total surprise, like here winters can be relatively mild at least in sheltered areas near the coast.
docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgardurinn.is%2FFiles%2FSkra_0064087.pdf
They have also had considerable success establishing new woodland which until recently was almost completely absent, other than fragments in sheltered gullies.
Although grazing animals have not helped, repeated glaciation meant only small areas were wooded when people settled there.
www.skogur.is/en/forestry/forestry-in-a-treeless-land/history-of-forests-in-iceland
Much of the interior is still too inhospitable but there are areas of Arctic willow and a few shrubby plants like heather
