Friends, do you remember our fluffy winter guest who lived in our gardens for several days? If not, now we will remind you and tell you what an unexpected continuation this story received.
In winter, from the side of the embankment of the Fontanka River, a hare ran into the Summer Garden in the middle of the night to visit us. After a couple of days of shadowing and searching for the alleged habitat of the forest guest (invited experts confirmed the version that this is really a hare), his traces were also found in the Mikhailovsky Garden. The situation with the capture of a forest guest in such an area became difficult. The case helped and in the end the hare was released on the Dudergof heights, in the habitats of its relatives.
And recently this wonderful story has received a continuation. Immediately make a reservation, no, the hare did not come to us again. As you already know, the gardens are currently undergoing April drying and preparing the garden for the summer season. Our contractors repair the pavement, put the benches and trellises in order.
And so, with the onset of heat in one of the bosquets of the Summer Garden, when examining young oaks grown from the acorns of that same Peter’s oak, new traces of the long-eared guest were found.
Earlier, we already told you that in winter the hare ate young shoots of common hazel, brilliant cotoneaster and actinidia lianas. And now our gardening specialists have discovered that the hare has managed to feast on young oaks in a few days of staying in our gardens. It was almost impossible to notice this in the winter in the snow, since the forest dweller chose four-year-old trees sticking out from under the snow, and with the melting, new facts of his stay in the center of St. Petersburg were discovered.
Fortunately, most of the seedlings survived, and soon the trees will take part in the All-Russian Oakwood of Emperor Peter the Great program and take their places of honor in the gardens and parks of the country.
