The heat that we have had here for more than a week is bothering not only people, but also the entire fauna and flora.

Our reader Ján Šima noticed that the linden trees that we planted along the parking lot in front of the entrance to the business in April are withering. He wrote to us: "I don't know who is responsible for the care of the recently planted linden alley, so I took the liberty of sending an observation of my environmental perception in our company. Unfortunately, from my point of view, it currently looks like some of the mentioned trees will no longer welcome us in the near future. I'm not an expert on trees, but at least in such a hot season, it is necessary to provide (not only) young trees with a few one-time intensive waterings. It will probably not be enough just to plant the trees, but also to help them in extreme cases for at least 1-2 years. As a gardener, I'm a little sorry that every morning when I come to work, and after lunch when I leave the hot car, I watch how the trees "die", so to speak."

Therefore, we asked the author of the idea to plant a linden alley - Igor Lefkanič (pictured on the right) if there is really a risk that young linden trees will not be able to cope with this heat: "Leaf fall in the summer, dry season is a natural phenomenon. In this way, the tree protects itself from excessive evaporation of water. Planting from containers has a great advantage over planting "free-rooted" loose seedlings. Of course, it is also necessary to water such seedlings from time to time. Thank you for your attentiveness to a nature lover."

So how is it?  Do we help young linden trees?  Will they survive extreme heat? We asked this question  to Miloš Fodor (left) – GM for the environment: "Yes, we will definitely help them and we are helping them. At night, they are watered as needed by our firefighters, who will continue this initiative until the extreme heat passes, for which we thank them very much."

And we thank Ján Šima and other attentive colleagues who walk around with their eyes open and write to us or call us when they encounter a problem.