Antimo Palumbo
Viavai September 2009
's still alive, but alive and suffering recumbent, with its leaves still green and turgid, large and deeply lobed. The Oak Quadraro, the oldest and largest specimen of English Oak (Quercus pedunculated) of a city of almost four million people who called Rome, there is always struggling to keep to live with the serious intention of returning to his feet, a distance of nearly eight months after that tragic Sunday March 29, when she was thrown to the ground by a particularly windy afternoon, also because of a rash and reckless damage to work done in time its root system. So much time has passed since those days of spring rain, and from then on April 1st when the director Ettore Viavai Ranalletta sent me to do an inspection to make sure of what had happened by way of Lentuli: that the fall of a patriarch living (with a 'estimated age of 400 years), horribly mutilated and final rapid intervention of the Fire Brigade and as everyone thought (the words of the headlines were "Goodbye," "Mourning") to the next stage for the Oak Rome was now bigger than the storage of firewood in some mountain home. Since then, however, due to the strength and the will of an entire neighborhood, alive, active and very attached to its history and treasures of its territory as a bit 'at a time, miracle after miracle, and obstacles facing attacks, negative opinions and inconsistent, and supporting visits Instead, expectations, feedback, bureaucratic process with painstaking patience, which is practiced by more and more the hope (which was becoming more real every day) to be able to return and live oak. And from the words, we moved to the facts and the beginning work to restore it and return it to his feet. This is not the occasion (and not in this article) to list and thank all the people who believed and made their contribution to the Oak (although with low percentages of germination) could return to live and to represent as a symbol (also when reduced and nell'impalcatura amputated of its branches), the district Quadraro. I will do that at the conclusion of a day when the last weeks of October, cranes and men in the Euro Nursery Garden led by Paolo Ceccarelli diligent say that the Oak is time to stand back, after a bad fall, but good luck. And 'in fact, thanks to big and strong iron girders the storage room (old building inhabited by historical characters of the neighborhood) which you fall that has managed to survive and not be uprooted completely. A portion of the radical left is so strong and healthy and has meant that, after a partitioned part of the injuries, put in motion all its instruments of self-defense. I remember that, like humans, even the trees have a strong sense of self and control. If a tree has the earth, sun and water falls hard, and if it does (because men have damaged cutting off the roots, headed by infecting and pathogenic fungi and decay) is the last thing you would do on this planet, because to him it means death. But see what has happened in recent months. With a passionate team player who has seen work together: the Committee for the Defence of Oak Quadraro, journalists and their support articles in the newspapers, and assistance from good directors, it has gone from inspections technical intervention and the provision of financial coverage (without this would not have happened at all) by the Councillor for Environment and Cooperation of the Peoples of the Region Lazio Zaratti Filiberto, in order to raise the Oak. At this point I snapped the time technical and bureaucratic that they have seen committed to the completion of construction practices, Claudio Turella Service Gardens in constant liaison with the director Mario Valloria Environment and Alderman of the City of Rome Fabio De Lillo, coordinated by the delegate for the Environment VI Hall Fabio Piattoni. Announced by a press release and newspaper articles from last Monday, July 27 work for the recovery of the Oak and the area in which is preparing for his next start riinalzamento. Winner of the tender is the Euro Nursery Garden Via Cristoforo Colombo in two weeks that deals with: the cutting of the Oak finish and lighten the hair to speed up once they got up and improve the recovery of vegetation and close with a mixture antifunginea open wounds with the new cuts, put on good ground, and fertilized turf discovery of the root, planted 15 new specimens of oaks in Via dei Lentuli and clean the embankment adjacent to Oak Street in the Lentuli (under the Tuscolana) than to in a state of total decay, Sergione always present and active (as well as other members of the Committee during the execution of works, including myself) on this occasion has taken 5 Buston full of plastic bottles. Thanks also to a consulting engineer who has seen the opinion of our agronomist Raffaele Fabozzi, it was decided, given the imminent increase in temperature and drought (not to hurt her further, since a part of the apparatus radical may be damaged in lifting) to postpone the lifting of the Oak Tree in late autumn, most probably in the last week of October. Finally, after rounds of watering that Committee members have pledged in recent months by passing empty buckets by hand to a long tube connected to a faucet (thanks again to the "gardeners in the field" and Sergione Sebastiano Vinci) Monday, August 17 has been fixed an automatic irrigation system to feed water to the Oak in the coming warm days of September. I will keep you updated on the upcoming October issue of the evolution of work and to remind you of the date on which the intervention will be to revive the Oak. A date which will enter the historical memory of the city - as a signal and education for all citizens so that the monumental trees are valued and protected as natural monuments and common property - and the district - a tree symbol to remind us that over its history is vital and popular a link between the wisdom and practicality of brown earth and joy and spirituality of the blue sky.
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