Arctic–Alpine Botanic Garden

We visited the garden a couple weeks ago (mid-September) and absolutely loved it! It was a great place to walk around and see so many different plants. The use of rocks for the paths and display was also very creative. This is a great place to visit when it’s not covered in snow!

Stunning views, very walkable hillslopes even for partly disabled, amazing huge international plant collection, and the best landscape architecture outside of Japan! Why? Painstaking selection & placement of every single stone, post, piece of gravel, plant, water features -- far beyond most of the planet's public gardens. No admission fee, no gates, no wait. Just amazing beauty.

A beautiful botanic garden, with many different plants and flowers. Very colourful, beautifully designed and maintained. Free entrance to the gardens. We loved visiting the gardens and enjoyed our time there.

It is one of the most diverse and bountiful botanical gardens I have been to! Excellent array of flowers and plants, and all laid out in a really engaging pathway; there's not just one oath. You can weave through and over different regions of plants and find unique displays, water features, and information boards. It's totally worth the visit!

Great garden spent about 2 hrs here in the autumn and very beautiful scenery here It's about a 40min walk from city centre Free attraction if you have nothing else to do

It's a very small but decent garden. However, November is not a good time to visit. The weather had already turned cold, and most of the smaller plants were dead.

Beautiful and free, what more can you want out of a Norwegian attraction. Bonus: beautiful views on the sea and mountains, and a few geocaches for those who are into it. Also a great photo opportunity in a reflective ball. Join another 1000 people who have done the same.

Late in the season but still some good flowers left. Nice rock features that you can use as steps.

Great find 300 meters from the cruise ship dock 24. It is free, signs are in English and Norwegian and the flower gardens are incredible. This botanic garden is the furthest north in the world, and within the Arctic circle, but because of the Gulf Stream, a huge number of flowers were blooming in June. The blue Himalayan poppies were wonderful. Worth a taxi ride from town if not on a ship.

The botanical gardens are associated with the From so University. They were started on a former farm donated by the farmer in the 30s and 40s. They are focused on plants that grow in arctic, boreal and alpine environments, both in Norway and other regions. The landscaping is spectacular! The displays and plantings are well organized but very natural. The gardens climb up the side of a hill, with rock steps and paths winding through. Very attractive, and gives you the feeling that you are out for a hike. We visited at the end of June and everything was in bloom! It was gorgeous. All the plantings are identified, so those with a green thumb will know just what to look for at your nursery...