In the Norwegian woods, we have a lot of different type of wood. The most usually type of wood is Spruce, but we also have a lot of pines.

The pines are green and can grow to be 20 – 30 metres.

Pines grow everywere in Norway. At the coast, even on the mountains. Also in Vennesla. Our pine is carring two springs of spruce. The pine has he and she flowers. On the top of the tree, there are hanging cones. They fall down in the summer and the autumn. The seeds at the cones arelaying open. The pine is one of the most usually trees in Norway (Vennesla).

In Vennesla we can find many flowers. For example Wintergreen, Lion’s tooth, Lily of the walley, White and blue anemone.

Wintergreen is a hardy woodland plant that bears white flowers. It got its name because its leaves are green all the winter.The name also applies to other plants of this type. The wintergreen is a lowgrowing shrub with creeping stems. It’s glossy leaves duster at the top of short, erect reddish branches. It’s attractive flowers are shaped like erns. They can’t be seen easily because the plant’s leaves hide them. The plant produses a bright red berry. Wintergreen provides a pleasent-smelling, pleasent-tasying oil. Wintergreen oil mserves as a flavoring sweets, medicine, chewing gum and tooth powder.

Lily of the walley or "Liljekonvall" as we say in Norwegian, has bell-shaped, pure white flowers. They hang down in a long cluster along a slender stem. The flower stalk rises from a rhizome (underground stem). Each stalk usually has two or three wide, oblong leaves. The fruit is a red berry about 6 millimetres i diameter. The plant requires rich, well in chade. Lily of the walley is a perennial plant, flowering naturally in late spring. Lily of the walley is famous for it`s fragance.

These are just some of the flowers in a typical norwegian wood!!!