[Sca-cooks] Cloister Gardens - was food on St Val's day

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

Sorry, I realize I should have changed the subject line! We've gotten 
pretty far from the original. And some might want to come back in, so to 
speak...

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AEllin Olafs dotter wrote:

> OK... I'm curious. I don't know much about gardens, but I'd always 
> heard that they were good examples of Medieval ones - but now, of 
> course, don't know if that was merely an assumption or what. Since, if 
> I want to hang out in a garden on a sunny day (well, a somewhat warmer 
> sunny day...) they're one of my options *G* I'd like to know about them.
>
> Come to think of it, one, at least, is laid out in the geometric 
> pattern that you (?) said earlier was more modern...   What about the 
> espaliered apple tree? On the (I think) North / Northwest wall - in 
> the sun and out of the wind howling down the Hudson?  I've been told 
> that's a classic example of  what they were doing... but my source 
> knew plant science more than medieval history of gardening, though he 
> was interested in both.
>
> AEllin
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> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
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>> Whose garden designs, by the way, are apparently more based on the
>> 'recreated' 18th century European gardens than period ones-- apparently
>> the layout is more typical of mannerist and baroque gardens than 
>> medieval
>> ones. :)
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>> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika  
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