A medieval cloister garden is meant “to preserve your own interior peace and calm, and to a remarkable degree, that’s exactly what happened here,” he said. Advertisement.

A medieval cloister garden is meant “to preserve your own interior peace and calm, and to a remarkable degree, that’s exactly what happened here,” he said.

The two major medieval works on garden design and horticulture were by the Benedictine monk Walafrid Strabo (c. 850) and the Dominican friar Albert the Great (c.1250). Medieval universities valued ...

Immanuel Lutheran Church's medieval garden is small and unassuming, but for history lovers the place is huge. Modeled on gardens from the medieval period, the church garden has plants and desig… ...

It’s easy to recreate the ordinary English vegetable garden of 600 years ago because the layout and cultivation of those early gardens differed little from today’s gardens. The early gardens ...

Continuum presents a program of music inspired by four medieval gardens, namely; The Garden of Zephirus, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Dreams in the Pleasure Garden, and Dance in the Garden of ...

In AD 830, St. Benedict said that gardening was appropriate manual labor for monks and that all monasteries should have a psychic garden, kitchen garden, cellar garden, an orchard, and a private ...

Medieval Mary Garden Prints. In undertaking the project in 1951 of spreading knowledge of the medieval flowers symbolically named for Mary and their growing as a prayerful religious work, we first of ...

At the time, there was also the Medieval Garden Enclosed blog, which was where Deirdre put her energy, into writing about the lore and the history of all of the plants. I just ate that up.

One corner of the garden of Alnwick Castle in northern England grows a hundred plants behind lock and key. Many of the toxic species there were used by medieval doctors — nasty plants adapted to ...

Continuum presents a program of music inspired by four medieval gardens, namely; The Garden of Zephirus, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Dreams in the… ...