Saxifrage your thing? Angelica get your green fingers tingling? Well you’re in luck. Today is Wild Flower Day in Iceland (Dagur hinna villtu blóma). The day is widely celebrated all over the country, where volunteers are giving free guided tours around their neighbourhoods, in which they dispense advice on the most common plants that grow there.

The guided tours are free for participants, and there’s no need to register your interest beforehand, just show up at the advertised time at the right place. How widely across the country the tours will be given depends on how many volunteers are available.

The volunteers representing the day are all flora enthusiasts. Many organisations have taken part in the preparations for today, supporting the volunteers, including the Laugardalur Botanical Garden, the Icelandic Touring Association, Hólar University College, the Agricultural University of Iceland, Natural History Museum of Kópavogur, the Icelandic Institute of Natural History, local natural history institutions and the Environment Agency of Iceland.

Wild Flower Day is held each year in all Nordic countries except the Faroes and Greenland, and has been running in Iceland since 2004.

Source: mbl.is

Labels: Environment, Nature