English translation
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Gardening work in Reykjavík City involves many tasks. Weeding, tending to trees and recreational paths, planting flowers, and on the rare days without enough rain, bringing out the watering cans.
Three work depots handle the City's main gardening tasks, such as maintaining parks, trees and flower beds in public areas.
Borgargarðar in Laugardalur
Access from Sunnuvegur, 104 Reykjavík
The Nursery oversees the cultivation of flowers, vegetables and trees for the City's outdoor areas and Reykjavík's School Vegetable Gardens.
The Nursery focuses on preserving Icelandic plant varieties and cultivars and increasing the number of plants that are well-adapted to Icelandic conditions.
City forests include Austurheiðar, the moors east of the urban area, as well as Elliðaárdalur and Öskjuhlíð. Staff responsible for the city's periphery oversee cultivation, thinning, and the creation of recreational paths in the outskirts and forested areas within the city.
Staff also participate in the "Reading in the Forest" project, which involves collaborating with City schools to establish local forests.