This arboretum is a one mans work.
He was an addicted..very intelligent but addicted to his collecting. His wife and ten kids sometimes had to starve as he had bought plants and seed for his money.
His goal was to get one spice of each tree and bush from the northern half of earth.. and during his lifetime he collected about 350 different types. Today there is just 200 left,
He also collected stones.. "funny, interesting stones" Stones works as heatcollectors.. during a sunny day they warm up, and during long nights they give the heat away and makes a better climate for rare trees.
He had a wife and ten kids.. and they lived in this little house.. but HE slept under a tree in the arboretum, wrapped in a blanket, until it became too cold to sleep outside!
His name? Gegerfeldt.. born in 1870- died in 1950?something..88 years old. All his life he only slept one hour per night.. Well, it doesn´t seem to make life shorter anyway?
