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 consensus in the profession at this point, early in the 21st century, is that the Renaissance has some validity as a period of art, and probably some validity in literary history, but that as a general term, it has too many problems to be useful.ther Developments in the 19th Century. It was the historians of art who first identified the Renaissance as a distinct historical period. Praising or condemning it, various writers saw in their own day a decline and recongized the Renaissance as a distinct phase that had ended sometime in the 16thc.