TY - JOUR
TI - The symbolic meaning of plants grown in a traditional homestead
AU - Drożdż-Szczybura, Małgorzata
TI - The symbolic meaning of plants grown in a traditional homestead
AB - 
	Greenery in the traditional croft, as in any other environment, served three basic groups of functions, i.e. protective and technical, utilitarian as well as social and cultural. It did serve but since the late 20th century we have been observing the decline of croft as a spatial solution characterising the rural development and thus the decline of the specific functions of its accompanying greenery. Due to its utilitarian, isolating, regulating and biological properties, greenery in the croft has a considerable effect on people’s and animals’ living conditions. It primarily served the utilitarian function, which included production and protection. One must not, however, fail to take into consideration its social and cultural role, above all ornamental but also symbolic. The individual features of plants utilised at crofts found appropriate application in the right place, function and role. They had a specific symbolic meaning, which usually stemmed from rational sources and which is more or less consciously perceived even today.
VL - 2018
IS - 22/2018
PY - 2018
SN - 1731-2442
C1 - 2543-8700
SP - 37
EP - 45
DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.18.006.8516
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/the-symbolic-meaning-of-plants-grown-in-a-traditional-homestead
KW - village
KW - traditional homestead
KW - green
KW - symbols