{"id":8350,"date":"2020-02-24T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/destination.hemsida365.se\/2020\/02\/24\/the-mountain-garden-a-unique-alpine-botanical-garden\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:18:50","slug":"the-mountain-garden-a-unique-alpine-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/2020\/02\/24\/the-mountain-garden-a-unique-alpine-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mountain Garden, a unique alpine botanical garden"},"content":{"rendered":" \n

A stone’s throw from central Jokkmokk lies the Mountain Garden, Jokkmokk’s own arctic garden that stands as a flourishing oasis along the rushing Kvarnb\u00e4cken stream just south of Lake Talvatis. King Karl’s Scepter, mountain avens, and glacier buttercup are just a few of the many mountain plants that thrive here. During summer, the Mountain Garden is open daily. <\/em><\/strong><\/p> \n \n

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“It feels like\nI’m walking in Carl von Linnaeus’s footsteps when I work here,<\/em> says Ingrid\nHellberg, who has been working as a gardener in the Mountain Garden since 2010.<\/p> \n \n

Ingrid originally comes from H\u00e4lsingland and is passionate about\ndeveloping the Mountain Garden. A new “mountain peak” has been created to provide even more\nspace for plants that thrive in an alpine biotope, and the Mountain Garden, which is\npart of the \u00c1jtte Mountain and Sami Museum, has over two decades developed\ninto a miniature world containing many of the ecological niches found in\nthe Arctic region, including marshland, mountain heath, taiga forest, reindeer grazing heath,\nwillow thickets, and bare mountain terrain. <\/p> \n \n

“It takes a long time to\nshape the garden,<\/em> explains Ingrid.<\/p> \n \n

“The bare mountain terrain has been\na challenge that we’ve worked on for a long time. I got inspiration from\nthe low mountain Jarre, from which you can see fantastic views. On the mountain peak we’ve\ncreated, you can see plants that normally grow in Sarek, <\/em> she continues.<\/p> \n \n

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When we visit the mountain garden in mid-June, the glacier buttercup (ranunculus glacialis) is in bloom, a small modest flower adapted to arctic climate and growing at high altitudes in the Alps, Carpathians, Sierra Nevada, Iceland, Svalbard, and Greenland. It also holds the Scandinavian altitude record and has been found at 2,055 meters on Kebnekaise and 2,370 meters on Galdh\u00f8piggen. <\/p> \n \n

The Mountain Garden also features many utility plants that have been used\nin various ways throughout history.<\/p> \n \n

“Nature is full of\nedible plants,<\/em> explains Ingrid.<\/p> \n \n

Angelica and mountain sorrel are two examples of plants that\nhave been used in various ways, both as food and for other purposes. Angelica has\nbeen used for medicinal purposes, and smoking dried angelica leaves in pipes was previously\npopular among children. Angelica is one of our oldest documented utility plants and\nis mentioned in the Icelandic sagas. <\/p> \n \n

The Mountain Garden also houses Axel Hamberg’s Tj\u00e5gnori Cabin.\nHamberg, who was a professor of geography at Uppsala University, developed\nbuilding techniques in the early last century to construct five lightweight but weather and\nwind-resistant cabins in the Sarek Mountains. The Tj\u00e5gnori Cabin was originally built in 1912\nand was bequeathed after Hamberg’s death to the Royal Academy of Sciences, which\nlater transferred it to the Environmental Protection Agency. In 1967, the Tj\u00e5gnori Cabin was moved to\nJokkmokk and can now be viewed in the Mountain Garden. <\/p> \n \n

“In it, you can see the special building technique that Hamberg developed at the beginning of the last century – a framework covered inside and out with galvanized metal sheets,<\/em> explains Ingrid.<\/p> \n \n

Read more about the mountain garden in Jokkmokk!<\/a><\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A stone’s throw from central Jokkmokk lies the Mountain Garden, Jokkmokk’s own arctic garden that stands as a flourishing oasis along the rushing Kvarnb\u00e4cken stream just south of Lake Talvatis. King Karl’s Scepter, mountain avens, and glacier buttercup are just a few of the many mountain plants that thrive here. During summer, the Mountain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,92,101],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-8350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-laponia-en","category-nature","tag-slider-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8371,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions\/8371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destinationjokkmokk.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}