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“Finding that nothing moves and everything decays, we have decided for the year 2022 to cancel the guided tours of the Nevegal garden and to bring our friends and students to the Viote garden in Trento”. Vittorio Alberti (Research Center for Medicinal Plants in the Veneto Region) was disappointed after his last visit to the garden. «On Sunday 18 July», he says, «we brought a group of students from all over the Veneto and Milanese to Nevegal and we found part of the garden closed for maintenance. We are talking about the whole karst path and the forest where in these days there is the great flowering of mountain arnica. We remind everyone that a properly managed botanical garden can attract up to 20,000 tourists a year ».
For Alberti, some “wild” mowings would have made many plants disappear, «including the famous eryngium alpinus, a plant that has always represented this garden. The list of disappeared plants is very long both for brushcutters and for lack of maintenance, such as the Alpine pinguicola and the rotundleaf sundew, both of peat bogs ».
According to Alberti, the cause would go back to the choices made three years ago… «There was a serious damage that we call the wild brushcutter. People without any expertise have been sent to the garden to cut the grass and have cut anything green, making many plants disappear ».
Alberti reveals his regret. «For us lovers of medicinal plants», he concludes, «seeing the decay of an Alpine botanical garden hurts the heart. Because the very birth of these gardens has a double objective: the conservation and defense of the botanical species present in the Eastern Alps and the dissemination and study of plants ». –
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