Riisipere Manor Park woody plants survey

Address: Tiigi, Vilumäe Village, Saue Parish, Harju County
Area: 5 400 m² (Tiigi property is the former Gardener house and it is part of the Riisipere Manor Park)
Time of Survey: 2024

A woody plants survey was carried out for the reconstruction of the former gardener’s house located on the Tiigi property. The Riisipere manor complex is in the classicist style. The main building was built in 1818-1821. The manor park construction started in the 1830s. It is an English-style park that is conneted to the surrounding landscape through views; the park and the surrounding cultural landscape form a whole. Riisipere Manor Park is under heritage protection and nature protection.

After the expropriation of the manors, the Bishop Platon Orphanage operated in Riisipere Manor from 1921-1984. Then the building housed an 8-class school, then it was used by the Riisipere state farm and then owned by the Nissi municipality; today the manor is privately owned.

Essentially, no original planting has been preserved, but presumably groups of Siberian larches that remain outside the area under study date back to the period of the park’s construction. Most of the trees were planted after World War II during the period, when the property was used by the Orphanage. There is a lot of wildly spread trees as well. On the Tiigi property, there are poplars ‘Petrowskiana’ with a striking diameter growth, which probably remained growing in the nursery area but were never planted to where they were designed to be planted. There is also a greenhouse ruin and a fruit orchard from the orphanage era there, containing a nice selection of apple trees and cherry trees.

The survey was conducted using the methodology described in EVS 939-3:2020 “Woody plants in greenery. Part 3: Protection of trees during construction works”, also the tree root protections zones were calculated using the methodology describes in the same standard.