Evaluation of the greenery in historic park in Beladice-Beladice, Slovakia

Abstract

The work is a part of broader research of historic parks in the South-western region of Slovakia. Beladice is a small village 20 km from Nitra; composed of 4 former villages; the largest one carries the name Beladice. In each of them there is a manor surrounded by a park. Late baroque styled manor rebuilt at the end of 19th century has had an added functionalistic wing since 20th century. Park laid out on 6.6 ha and 2.4 ha was last time treated by Michal Strnad in 1906-07. In 2012 a plant inventory of the whole park was made using an author’s method. 800 trees, 35 shrubs and 65 groups of natural seedlings have been evaluated. Altogether 67 taxa were identified; from which 36 are broad-leaved trees, 23 conifers and 8 shrub species. The result of the stock taking is felling proposal for the ill, dangerous and compositionally unsuitable trees. The average health state of the trees is 3.55; their average compositional value is 3.25 and 50% of the plants should be removed due to the overgrown outplantings and lack of maintenance for over last 20 years.