Boxwood grows without pruning for a more informal look. Boxwood plants brought over from Amsterdam found a new home on Long Island, New York, in 1653, according to the American Boxwood Society. Over 350 years later, we still use them for hedges, foundation plantings, specimen accents in containers and even in topiary and bonsai.
The Twelfth Century Renaissance was an internationalist movement. One characteristic of this was the wandering scholars who traveled from country to country. They developed their own genre of poetry-Carmina Burana-Latin songs celebrating academic and also more earthly pleasures.hr tien de Troyes (ob. c. 1185), the author of Arthurian Romances, argued that contemporary French culture was as fine as that of ancient Greece and Rome.  Il fonce sur lui, croyant le prendre au d pourvu, Mais Lancelot sut se prot ger; Avec son p e tranchante.
The Renaissance is generally considered to have started in Florence, Italy around the years 1350 to 1400.he start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages. Humanism. One of the big changes in the Renaissance was in the basic way people thought about things. In the Middle Ages people thought that life was supposed to be hard.