What is Hortus Conclusus?
Hortus Concrusus is a completely closed garden for pleasure designed and executed in medieval style. Such gardens were certainly popular before the medieval time, but during the medieval period they reached their height and most of which followed were designed to imitate medieval gardens. Several features are distinguished by Hortus Concrusus from other types of masonry and the pleasure of the garden, and such gardens are particularly common from religious facilities such as church complexes and monasteries.
The term "Hortus Concussus" means a "closed garden" in Latin, and is originally used as a reference to the Virgin Mary. Many paintings of the Virgin Mary refer to this and show her and infant Jesus in an enclosed environment to emphasize her purity and miracle of virgin birth. Over time, people began to translate the metaphor into physical reality, in the form of carefully designed closed gardens. It is divided into quadrants by four different ways that may or may not lead anywhere, depending onHow the surrounding walls or monasteries are distributed. In the case of roads that do not lead to the holes, benches or concomitulars can be created instead, creating species destinations for the path. In the middle of Hortus Concussus, it is also typical to see a fountain, a swimming pool, a pond or well, referring to the water of life and Mary's role in bringing the life of an infant of Jesus.
In the medieval Hortus Concusus, each plant would be carefully selected for symbolic value and the garden could have a rotating seasonal planting with various built -in religious meanings. People were encouraged to travel around the garden and stop at different times to consider religious symbolism in the garden and the nature of faith. The garden could also be used for recreation such as card games, dancing, music performances, etc. And it was often designed to be for women in the home.
Some modern gardeners appreciate the retainsThe Hortus Concrusus symbolism, along with the details of the design of these distinctive medieval gardens. Modern Hortus Concrusus usually retains water trait and paths, but may or may not choose plants on the basis of their religious symbolism. More often, plants are arranged in a way that is most aesthetically pleasing, regardless of their symbolic meaning.