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.
During and after the Renaissance of the 12th century, Europe experienced an intellectual revitalization, especially with regard to the investigation of the natural world. In the 14th century, however, a series of events that would come to be known as the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages was underway.he rediscovery of ancient scientific texts was accelerated after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the invention of printing which would democratize learning and allow a faster propagation of new ideas. But, at least in its initial period, some see the Renaissance as one of scientific backwardness.