Old garden culture at Laskestad
Take a walk from the rectory at Laskestad, visit the old rectory garden with its venerable trees and follow the avenue down to the flower beds at Steigen village park!
Steigen rectory garden
In the 1870s, a particularly gardening-loving priest came to Engeløya in Steigen. Together with his wife Amalie, Reverend Carl Richard Wisløff transformed the rectory on Engeløya into an oasis with around 600 species of perennials, useful plants, shrubs and trees. The garden project was a collaboration with Fredrik Christian Schübeler, professor of botany at Tøyen Botanical Garden in Christiania. He wanted to find out how far north individual plants could survive and set seeds, while at the same time he was keen to spread gardening knowledge.
Open museum and cafe
from mid-June to mid-August. The garden is available 24 hours a day. Guided tour of the garden on request.
Steigen Village Garden
Many of the old perennial flowers from the vicarage garden have found a new home in the large round beds at Steigen village garden. In the sunny garden, the colorful traditional perennials such as Daglilje, Fjellflokk or Løytnantshjerte come to their full glory. The extensive collection of traditional northern Norwegian perennials is a feast for the eyes throughout the summer.
The Stephen Lily – Queen of the Garden
The most striking is perhaps the Caucasus Lily (Lilium monadelphum) or the Steigenlily, as it is called in Northern Norway.
The Steigenlily is a very beautiful, large-grown lily with large, bright, sunny yellow bells and a wonderful fragrance on warm summer evenings.
