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

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.