Discover Serenity with Garden Water Features

Discover Serenity with Garden Water Features Your state of mind is favorably influenced by having water in your garden. The noise in your neighborhood can be masked by the delicate sounds of a fountain. This is a place where you can entertain yourself and experience nature. Considered a great healing element, many water treatments use big bodies of water such as seas, oceans and rivers in their treatments. So if you want a little piece of heaven nearby, a pond or fountain in your own garden is the answer.

Anglo-Saxon Gardens at the Time of the Norman Conquest

Anglo-Saxon Gardens at the Time of the Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxons felt extraordinary adjustments to their day-to-day lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. The talent of the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons' in architecture and farming at the time of the conquest. But before focusing on home-life or having the occasion to consider domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Most often constructed upon windy summits, castles were basic structures that enabled their occupants to spend time and space to offensive and defensive strategies, while monasteries were rambling stone buildings frequently added in only the most fecund, extensive valleys. The serene method of gardening was impractical in these bleak bastions. The early Anglo-Norman style of architecture is symbolized in Berkeley Castle, which is conceivably the most untouched example we have. Anglo-Saxon Gardens Time Norman Conquest 758806064407100.jpg

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It is said that the keep was developed during William the Conqueror's time. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an obstacle to attackers attempting to dig under the castle walls. On one of these parapets is a scenic bowling green covered in grass and bordered by an aged hedge of yew that has been designed into coarse battlements.