I haven’t just been using the iPhone camera. These are a few photos I took these past few days in my garden and during my walks.
Here’s a story in three parts:
A redcurrant bush hybrid in the garden has been getting quite a bit of bird traffic lately. Though they always stop in the nearby evergreen first to make sure it’s safe first.
According to my dad, this particular type of redcurrant is a hybrid originally created here in Hveragerði, and is now very common in Icelandic gardens.
Hveragerði has been a horticultural and forestry centre for a long while. And Iceland’s horticultural school is based here.
There’s a hybrid redcurrant of this type in my grandmother’s garden. It was grown from a cutting from the plant my great granddad planted in the garden where she grew up. He had bought that plant from Hveragerði, which, considering the Icelandic road system at the time, was A Journey that required considerable dedication to gardening.
