Your Garden: An Ideal Place for a Fountain
Your Garden: An Ideal Place for a Fountain
The area outside your home can be polished up by adding a wall or a garden fountain to your landscaping or garden project. Any number of present-day designers and fountain artisans have found ideas in the fountains and water features of the past. As such, integrating one of these to your home design is a great way to connect it to the past. The water and moisture garden fountains release into the atmosphere draws birds and other creatures, and also balances the ecosystem, all of which contribute to the advantages of including one of these beautiful water features. Flying, bothersome insects, for instance, are frightened off by the birds congregating around the fountain or birdbath. Spouting or cascading fountains are not the best option for a small garden since they require a great deal of space. Two options to choose from include either a freestanding type with an even back set against a fence or wall in your backyard, or a wall-mounted, self-contained type which hangs on a wall. Both a fountain mask located on the existing wall as well as a basin located at the bottom to collect the water are necessary if you wish to add a fountain. Since the plumbing and masonry work is extensive to complete this type of job, you should employ a professional to do it rather than attempt to do it alone.
Anglo-Saxon Gardens During the Norman Conquest
Anglo-Saxon Gardens During the Norman Conquest The arrival of the Normans in the second half of the eleventh century irreparably improved The Anglo-Saxon lifestyle.
The Normans were better than the Anglo-Saxons at architecture and horticulture when they came into power. Nonetheless the Normans had to pacify the whole territory before they could concentrate on home life, domestic architecture, and decoration. Castles were more basic constructions and often constructed on blustery hills, where their people devoted both time and space to practicing offense and defense, while monasteries were large stone buildings, regularly positioned in the widest, most fruitful hollows. Gardening, a placid occupation, was impracticable in these fruitless fortifications. Berkeley Castle, potentially the most uncorrupted style of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture, still exists now. The keep is said to date from William the Conqueror's time period. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an obstacle to assailants attempting to dig under the castle walls. 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.