Medieval garden

Explore five key elements of medieval monastery gardens, from sacred plants to healing herbs, and learn how they shaped monastic life and worship.

Hidden in northern Manhattan's Fort Tyron Park, Met Cloisters museum transports visitors to another time with the ruins of medieval French abbeys.

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Courtney Scott, of Travelocity's Let's Roam web series, spills the insider details on traveling around New York City's outer boroughs and beyond.

As we head into a new decade, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the history of garden furniture and how it has become the modern-day garden staple that it is today.

Solitude takes on new meaning at the pandemic-shuttered Cloisters in New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Instagram: "Controversial opinion: Our favorite bed on National Napping Day is a flower bed 🌷 Did you know there are three unique gardens within the walls of The Met Cloisters? Planted in reconstructed Romanesque and Gothic cloisters (from the Latin for "enclosure"), The Met Cloisters gardens evoke green spaces that provided sustenance and spiritual refreshment within medieval monasteries. Designed as an integral feature of the Museum, the gardens…

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Medieval gardens were orderly spaces where beauty coexisted with utility. Gardeners of the Middle Ages developed essential skills and learned to grow edible, medicinal and decorative plants that are still indispensable to us today. To learn who the medieval gardeners were, what was in a medieval garden, and what the gardens of this period looked like, read a post at Star of Nature.

A folly built by the Trench family where the Trench family entertained their friends with views over the Heywood estate. Built as a ruin and never intended to be completed, unusually the window appears to be an authentic medieval... more

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source: scanned image from Victoria April 1995 In observance of Earth Day I am doing an ode to gardening. I fondly remembered the old Victoria magazine's features on gardening and decided to dig them out and see what images I could come up with. I have tore out these features and long since thrown the magazines away. If I knew the the date of the feature I have posted it here as the source, otherwise I don't know the date. source: scanned image from Victoria magazine This was from the…

In the Medieval Garden at the Borgo Medioevale in Turin, Italy