Video: Upside down: unusual flowerbeds at Glacier Gardens, Alaska
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
Glacier Gardens, Alaska - the place is very unusual. Tourists who come here on an excursion may think that everything around is turned upside down, because dozens of trees, contrary to common sense and the laws of botany, their top rests on the ground, and their roots stretch to the sky. Unlike baobab trees, these trees were not originally like that, their unique appearance is the result of many years of work of the park owners Steve and Cindy Bowhay, who put a lot of effort into the landscaping of the park.
Unusual trees were named “Flower Towers”, and they appeared “thanks to” natural disasters. In 1984, during a massive landslide in the mountains, many trees were uprooted. The Americans, not indifferent to the trouble, the Bouhey brothers, began to engage in restoration work. At first, they bought only six acres of land, which they began to plant with trees and shrubs, trying to prevent further soil erosion. In order to provide electricity to the greenhouses, Steve built a small hydroelectric power station, at the same time the first artificial reservoirs appeared here. Over time, the authorities allocated another 44 acres to enthusiasts, today the Glacier Gardens is 50 acres.
Despite the fact that many seedlings were planted, Steve Bowhey did not forget about the trees uprooted under the onslaught of the elements. He literally gave a second life to the dead plants: collecting those trees whose trunks were intact, the resourceful American buried them in the ground for several feet, and equipped natural flower beds in the rhizome, in which he planted fuchsias, begonias and petunias. Today, the Glacier Gardens botanical garden has about a hundred "upside-down" trees, the tops of which are decorated with moss and flowers.
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