{"id":24,"date":"2014-02-17T19:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkartor.se\/~vax\/arboretumnorr_wp\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T13:28:25","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arboretum-norr.se\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Arboretum Norr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carl-Gustaf Th\u00f8gersen, Arboretum Norr\u2019s founder with a subalpine fir youngling, Abies lasiocarpa 1982.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In 1975, the seed for Arboretum Norr began to grow. It was the Danish dendrologist Carl-Gustaf Th\u00f8gersen’s idea to establish the world’s northernmost arboretum in Baggb\u00f6le. Carl-Gustaf, who came to Ume\u00e5 University in 1974 to study, had previously worked in various arboreta and felt that northern Sweden lacked a place dedicated to botanical and dendrological science. He emphasized the importance of research material for both education and studies, but also for landscape architects, garden technicians, foresters and a wide range of educational activities in society. The location would also provide Ume\u00e5 with a new recreational area where visitors could enjoy exotic tree species in the company of the river landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n

The first plantings, mostly of conifers, were made in 1981, and shortly afterwards the Arboretum North Foundation was formed through a collaboration between Ume\u00e5 Municipality, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Ume\u00e5 University, to manage the new arboretum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the aims of the foundation was, and still is today, to collect knowledge about the hardiness and growth of trees and shrubs, with the purpose of finding hardy plant material for northern Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n