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My name is Magnar Aspaker. I'm a teacher. My wife's name is Toril. We have two grown up children. We live in Harstad, North Norway, around 69º north, 200 km north of the arctic circle. This may seem very far north, but because Harstad is situated close to the sea; actually we live on the biggest island in Norway; it's not so cold here in winter. We normally have a good winter cover of snow. But the summers are short and may be quite cool. Max temperature is 28C..min -16C.
Still during the growing season we have daylight 24 hours a day. The sun never sets from May 24 to July 20. This gives a long growing season even if the summer is short.
I've been growing perennials from seeds since around 1985. It all started when I got bored of the choice of perennials offered in the local garden-centers. So I started to sow my own perennials, to see what would survive up here.
When you go to the books, they tell you about a lot of plants unsuitable for our region, and this just because no one has ever tried them here before.
So I've been trying out a lot, and have proved that much more plants can grow here without any cover during winter. At the moment I have close to 2000 different perennials in my garden. See my list of plants. You will find around 870 plant pics. All of them have beentaken in our garden.
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Have you read my newest book?
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The book is 96 pages. All the pictures have been taken in Our garden.
The book can be purchased by email: magnar@aspaker.no
Price 200kr + Shipping and packaging 30kr.