Arboretum Bukovina, Arboretum in Hrubá Skála, Czech Republic.
Arboretum Bukovina is an English-style park on the Hruboskalská plateau, about 1 km southwest of Sedmihorky in the Semily district. It covers 2.73 ha and holds 400 protected memorial trees, including 110 Douglas firs and 51 pedunculate oaks.
The arboretum was founded in 1860–1862 by Jan Bedřich Lexa of Aehrenthal (1817–1898), owner of the Hrubá Skála estate, on the initiative of forester Leopold Anger Sr. (1837–1915). It is one of the oldest experimental plots in the country for introducing foreign tree species. Since 2005 a sculpture called Duch arboreta, carved by Ivan "Dědek" Šmíd from a dead Douglas fir, has stood on the site.
The timber-framed pavilion in the arboretum serves in summer as an information centre for the Český ráj Protected Landscape Area administration. The name Bukovina refers to the beech stands, and the site is laid out as an English park around a former forester's lodge.
The timber-framed pavilion at the entrance serves as an information centre for the Český ráj Protected Landscape Area in summer. The grounds cover 2.73 hectares on the Hruboskalská plateau, about 1 km southwest of Sedmihorky. The site is managed by Lesy České republiky.
A dead Douglas fir at the entrance was carved in 2005 into a sculpture called "Duch arboreta" (Spirit of the Arboretum) by Ivan "Dědek" Šmíd of Nepřívěc. Of the 407 trees originally protected, 400 remain after storms in 2004 and 2007.
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