Dendroflora of manor gardens of the early twentieth century in Łęczna county

Margot Dudkiewicz,Marek Dąbski

doi:10.5586/aa.2013.059

Abstract

In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, new styles in the concept of a naturalistic park were created. The sites from this period located in the Lublin region include, among others, the Milejów manor and the Ciechanki Łańcuchowskie manor. The manor park in Milejów was founded in the nineteenth century in English style. In the park there is a wooden, well–preserved mansion from 1903. However, the manor in Ciechanki is a building in modernist style. Both these park and manor complexes have a rich history and they fully deserve conservator’s protection. A dendrological inventory in Milejów showed 190 woody plants belonging to 22 species, while in Ciechanki – 590 woody plants belonging to 24 species. They are mostly native species associated with deciduous forests – Fraxinus excelsior L., Acer pseudoplatanus L., and Carpinus betulus L. Currently, the parks are gradually becoming naturalised, losing their original spatial arrangement, and they require restoration.

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In the agricultural landscape, post–manor parks are a substitute for a forest
The species composition of such parks differs from that of a typical forest, yet they play many environmental functions, e.g. They constitute elements of ecological chains which enable the migration of organisms between biotopes and ecological niches isolated from civilization [1]
The property is not listed as a historic monument

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Historic green residential complexes represent typical trends from the Renaissance and Baroque as well as various types of landscape parks which constitute the primary means of shaping the surroundings of countryside mansions [2]. A landscape park is a space made up of different images and sequences of places such as grass areas, irregular and free forms of woody vegetation and water features of natural character – ponds and streams. Borowski et al [3] pointed out that the vegetation of the parks can vary structurally (woodland, grassland), in terms of habitat (e.g. riparian wetland habitats, typical hornbeam patches), and in the degree of conversion (degenerated groups and groups of natural character) [3]

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