Community gardens have the potential to improve the lives of people everywhere crossing all boundaries of age, race, gender and nationality. These group effort gardens are making a positive difference one plant at a time.
City Park Planning Using Concrete Fountains
History of Concrete Fountains
Feng Shui: Water And The Cycle Of Life
The spiritual connection to the physical world is about harnessing the positive energy that surrounds us through the ancient Chinese art of placement, arrangement and connectivity known as Feng shui (pronounced fung schwee). Feng shui literally means wind and water in Chinese. The connective flux or the constant state of change between all five elementsfire, earth, water, wood, and metalurges us to be in balance and in harmony with nature. There is no greater pathway of…
Use of Fountains and Statuary in English Monastic Gardens
Few exact records of English monastic gardens have been preserved. A twelfth-century plan of Canterbury, showing the cloisters containing a herbarium, garden fountain, and a conduit; with a garden pond, orchard, and vineyard outside the walls, gives only a rough idea of the planting and arrangement. But there is no other document even this complete belonging to this early period.
Orchards in English Pleasure Gardens
The orchard in the Middle Ages was practically indistinguishable from the garden or pleasure garden. The orchard in those days contained, besides a variety of fruit trees, herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes and a few flowers, also fountains, seats, and the other architectural features of the pleasure garden.
Plants in English Tudor Gardens
The intermingling of ornamental with useful plants continued to be common in Tudor gardens. As an innovation, Andrew Borde recommended that there be two divisions separated by a broad-hedged alley.
Pleasure Gardens in the Age of Queen Elizabeth
The fruitful age of Queen Elizabeth brought both the planning and the planting of the loveliest English gardens very nearly to perfection. When the other arts of the Renaissance had reached their maturity and were on the verge of decline, garden making began to develop rapidly.
The Dutch Garden in England
The Dutch garden is said to have been brought to England by William III, though some of its characteristics might have been discovered there before his day. It was an adaptation of the French and Barocco styles, hardly to be called original, but comprising certain features at least individual.
The Gardens at Hampton Court
There was no abrupt transition from the style of the Middle Ages to that of the Renaissance in English gardens. Many Gothic features were long retained, of which remnants are still in evidence: the carved stonework, the conduits, the walks, and arbors.
The Garden Wall
The Garden Wall is an extension of your own garden. Plant & decorate to taste!
How The Medieval English Planned a Home and Gardens
Andrew Borde is the first writer who gave directions in English about how to plan a house and grounds. Much of his advice was practical, although often he saw fit to drag in a somewhat irrelevant quotation from the Bible, or a passage from some classic author to which we should not attach much importance.
French and English Gardens of the Middle Ages
The Roman de la Rose gives the best possible idea of both the French and English gardens of the Middle Ages.