Scientific Papers Series B Horticulture

Cults, and in conformity with the current laws,are estate goods, constructions and landsituated on the territory of Romania, or outsidethe borders, properties of the Romanian state,significant for the history, culture and nationaland universal civilization.All mentioned above belong to the nationalcultural heritage and are protected by lawsspecific to historical sites.The list of the monuments is pretty vast, yetmany of the aforementioned are alreadyphysically gone (like the Vcreti Estate, inDambovita county), and most didn’t benefitfrom studies or conservation and restorationinterventions.The few restorations undergonelately did not made themselves remarked forprofessionalism.Figure 2. Image from the restauration of the Venetianterraces, done in the time of Martha Bibescu (ChilimanA., 2000)Figure 1. Vcreti Mansion, in Vcreti, Dâmboviacounty (vanished since the comunist period) (Ion N.D.,2008)A professional approach of the historicalmonuments, as it is viewed by the lastinternational conventions concerning culturalheritage, landscape, monuments and sites, showthe importance that these have in the culturalheritage of a community (Florence cart).The process of professional restoration of thehistorical gardens involves an inventory of itscomprising elements and specializedinterventions considering their restoration,conservation and up-keeping, obtaining andmaintaining a high degree of authenticity.Figure 3. Planting on the venetian terrace, at the lastrestauration of the parc palace Brâncovenesc inMogooaia, restauration of a poor qualityThe authenticity of the site refers at the flatdrawing, the volume of the constituentelements as well as all the other vegetal ormineral details that it encompasses. Anyattempt to conserve or restore it assumes asimultaneous intervention on all the parts of theensemble, in order not to affect the structure ofthe initial composition.Restoring and conserving the historical gardensinvolves not only the comprising elements butalso the general context, defined by the exteriorenvironment in which these exist. All thechanges that happen in the physicalenvironment endanger the ecologicalequilibrium of the site.Intervention done on the historical monumentsare made only by respecting the Agreement ofthe Culture and Cults Ministry; the forcemajeure events are an exception, but with thecondition that the changes are reversible.322