Lecce, Belloluogo Park, new trees and shrubs thanks to the collaboration with Arnia
eighteen new trees, vines, roses and flowering shrubs or medicinal essences were planted.
Lecce, Belloluogo Park, new trees and shrubs thanks to the collaboration with Arnia
Aspiring artistic gardeners at work in the Belloluogo Park: eighteen new trees, vines, roses and flowering shrubs or medicinal essences were planted. In recent days, twenty students of the professional training course for "Art Gardeners" held by Arnia soc coop have worked under the supervision of the Environment Department in areas of the park in need of forestation and regeneration interventions, putting the techniques into practice acquired. The activities involved the planting of four holm oaks, a carob tree, thirteen fruit trees, five landscape roses, seven pergola vines, seven tegete lemmonii, and then caper plants, tino serpillo, santolina, thyme vulgaris, boronia crenulata, lemongrass, teucrium chamaedrys, leucophyta, feijoia sollowiana and iris germanica.
The Arnia training project is financed with a public notice from the Training department of the Puglia Region as part of the Pnrr measures aimed at financing training projects. Between partners the University of Salento through the DISTEBA department, the Columella Institute, Delco srl.
In addition to some areas of the Belloluogo Park, the Municipality of Lecce has made the gardens of the De Amicis school available to new artistic gardeners, where the cleaning, redevelopment, weeding and pruning operations and, subsequently, redevelopment and beautification of existing spaces by planting new species.
Of Figure “art gardener” is able to carry out interventions aimed at the conservation, renewal and reconstruction of elements, spaces and vegetal architecture of the garden, mastering the techniques, materials and methods of planting, care, prevention and regeneration of the vegetal elements of which they are composed. It is the professional figure who carries out restoration, conservation, maintenance and management of historic gardens and parks in the public and private green areas, respecting the original forms of the garden, enhancing the historical, material culture, architectural, environmental and landscape peculiarities , of relationship.
«We took the opportunity that the collaboration with Arnia offered us to further implement the arboreal and shrubby heritage of the Park, whose ordinary maintenance is entrusted to Lupiae Servizi, filling gaps with new plantings and redeveloping areas that will be now more flowery and colorful – declares the Councilor for the Environment Angela Valli – I thank the offices that are scrupulously following the activities carried out, experimenting with a form of public-private collaboration that can also be replicated on other occasions. Naturally, I thank the organization and wish good luck to the students who worked in our park and in the De Amicis gardens. The ongoing ecological transition requires the support of adequately trained professionals to guarantee forestation, care and redevelopment of the plant heritage existing in cities".
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