Gardening

Illustration of a teenager watering flowers.

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.

Parks maintenance yards

Three parks maintenance yards handle the City's primary horticultural tasks, such as maintaining ornamental gardens, trees, and flower beds in public areas.

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Parks Maintenance Yard I

Fiskislóð 37c
101 Reykjavík

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Parks Maintenance Yard II

Árbæjarblettur by Rafstöðvarvegur
110 Reykjavík

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Parks Maintenance Yard III

Borgargarðar in Laugardalur
Access from Sunnuvegur, 104 Reykjavík

Fossvogur Nursery

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

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.

  • Address: Jafnasel District Depot
  • Head Supervisor: Óskar Baldursson
  • Supervisor: Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson
  • Telephone: 411 8640