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 English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.isual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English period began far later than the Italian, which is usually considered to begin in the late 14th century, and was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.