Walled garden
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A walled garden is a garden enclosed by high walls, especially when this is done for horticultural rather than security purposes, although originally all gardens may have been enclosed for protection
The walled garden of Edzell Castle, Scotland, survives from the early seventeenth century.
Detail of miniature, c. 1490s, showing a garden walled all round, with internal fencing of various kinds. The stone walls are unrealistically low for artistic convenience.
15th-century Hortus conclusus, with the Virgin Mary reading, imagined by the Upper Rhenish Master
Movable blocks to control the movement of hot air in the heated wall at Eglinton Country Park
Hortus conclusus
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Hortus conclusus is a Latin term, meaning literally "enclosed garden". Both words in hortus conclusus refer linguistically to enclosure. It describes a type of garden that was enclosed as a practical
Martin Schongauer, Madonna of the Rose Bower, 1473
The Annunciation - Convent of San Marco, Florence
The Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus by an anonymous painter
Medieval-style garden from Coucy, France