Use a Garden Fountain To Help Improve Air Quality

Use a Garden Fountain To Help Improve Air Quality If what you are after is to breathe life into an otherwise boring ambiance, an indoor wall fountain can be the solution. Putting in this sort of indoor feature positively affects your senses and your general health. The science behind the theory that water fountains can be beneficial for you is undeniable. Water features in general generate negative ions which are then balanced out by the positive ions released by contemporary conveniences. The negative ions created by these kinds of water features overtake the positive ones resulting in positive changes to both your mental and physical wellness. Use Garden Fountain Help Improve Air Quality 35401261.jpg

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A rise in serotonin levels is experienced by those who have one of these water features making them more alert, peaceful and lively. The negative ions produced by indoor wall fountains promote a better mood as well as remove air impurities from your home. Water features also help in eliminating allergens, pollutants among other types of irritants. And lastly, dust contaminants and microbes in the air are removed and lead to improved health.

Bernini’s Very First Italian Water Fountains

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The Barcaccia, a beautiful water fountain built at the base of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna, was Bernini's earliest fountain. To this day, you will see Roman residents and vacation goers occupying this area to revel in chit chatter and being among other people. Bernini would undoubtedly have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's most fashionable areas, that surrounding his amazing water fountain. Dating back to around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII mandated what was to be the very first fountain of the artist's career. A large boat slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's central theme. The great flooding of the Tevere that blanketed the whole region with water in the 16th was memorialized by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this time. In 1665 Bernini traveled to France, in what was to be his sole prolonged absence from Italy.

Anglo-Saxon Gardens at the Time of the Norman Conquest

Anglo-Saxon Gardens at the Time of the Norman Conquest The arrival of the Normans in the 2nd half of the eleventh century irreparably transformed The Anglo-Saxon lifestyle. At the time of the conquest, the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons in building design and cultivation. But the Normans had to pacify the entire territory before they could focus on home life, domestic architecture, and decoration. Because of this, castles were cruder constructions than monasteries: Monasteries were often important stone buildings located in the biggest and most fecund valleys, while castles were constructed on windy crests where their inhabitants dedicated time and space to projects for offense and defense. Gardening, a placid occupation, was unfeasible in these unproductive fortifications. The finest example of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture existent presently is Berkeley Castle. The keep is said to date from William the Conqueror's time period. Anglo-Saxon Gardens Time Norman Conquest 59081622738090628894.jpg

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A massive terrace serves as a discouraging factor to intruders who would try to mine the walls of the building. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an ancient yew hedge trimmed into the shape of crude battlements.