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Shore Grove
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Along and around the trail, you can see the different types of local woods. The groves along the banks of the Bolgenach river around the Liessenbach Bridge are a part of the Timber Culture trail that was established by the township of Hittisau.
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You can find many different types of bushes here. What is missing though, is an extensive flood plain, and the bordering meadows are farmed intensively. Even so, we can still see quite a few different types of groves that grow along the banks. The thing that catches the eye in the narrow groves are the large number of Alders (Alnus incana), Ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) and Willows (Salix specialis). In the bush-like underbrush, we find the Dwarf Honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum) with its inedible red berries, the red dogwood (cornus sanguinea) with its red bark, the Privet (Ligustrum vulgare) with it small dark green leaves and poisonous black berries as well as a few individual Black Elderberry bushes (Sambucus nigra). Some people might be surprised by the presence of the Black Elderberry bushes in this location because it is often thought of as a cultivated plant that grows close to human settlements. The truth is, though, that the Elderberry was originally a bush that grew in the woods. Its natural locations are meadow woods and bank groves with nutritious, fresh soil. Here it can grow to the height of a tree. The Cyme, which blooms a yellowish ivory colour at the end of June, with its at first, red, then violet and then black berries was and still is a very important plant for naturopaths. |
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