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Introduction

Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space. Gardens fulfill a wide assortment of purposes, notably the production of aesthetically pleasing areas, medicines, cosmetics, dyes, foods, poisons, wildlife habitats, and saleable goods (see market gardening). People often partake in gardening for its therapeutic, health, educational, cultural, philosophical, environmental, and religious benefits. Gardening varies in scale from the 800 hectare Versailles gardens down to container gardens grown inside. Gardens take many forms, some only contain one type of plant while others involve a complex assortment of plants with no particular order. (Full article...)

Horticulture is the science, technology, art, and business of cultivating and using plants to improve human life. Horticulturists and Horticultural Scientists create global solutions for safe, sustainable, nutritious food and healthy, restorative, and beautiful environments. This definition is seen in its etymology, which is derived from the Latin words hortus, which means "garden" and cultura which means "to cultivate". There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: gardening, plant production/propagation, arboriculture, landscaping, floriculture and turf maintenance. For each of these, there are various professions, aspects, tools used and associated challenges; Each requiring highly specialized skills and knowledge of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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Image 1Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 2Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 3Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 4Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 5
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 6Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 7The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 8Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 9The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 10Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 11Opening from the 1712 English edition of The Theory and Practice of Gardening - Wherein is Fully Handled all that Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens &c. Suggested schemes for gardens of 6 (left) and 12 (right) acres. (from Garden writing)
Image 12Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 13Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 14Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 15Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 16Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 17The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 18Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 19Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 20Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 21Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 22
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 23Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 24Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 25Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 26The Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, China (created in 1559) shows all the elements of a classical Chinese garden – water, architecture, vegetation, and rocks. (from List of garden types)
Image 27Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 28White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 29Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 30Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 31Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 32Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 33Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 34A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 35Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 36Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 37Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 38Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 39Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 40Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 41King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 42Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 43Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 44Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 45Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 46Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 47Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 48Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 49Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 50Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 51The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 52Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 53Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 54The Oak Allee in the Gardens in Hendrie Park at Royal Botanical Gardens (Ontario), designed by J. Austin Floyd in 1965. (from History of gardening)
Image 55The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 56The Orangerie in the Gardens of Versailles with the Pièce d’eau des Suisses in the background (French formal garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 57A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 58The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 59Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 60Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 61Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 62Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 63Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 64Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 65Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 66Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 67A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 68Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 69Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 70A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 71Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 72Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 73Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 74White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 75Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 76Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 77Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 78Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 79Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)

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The Japanese dry garden (枯山水, karesansui) or Japanese rock garden, often called a Zen garden, is a distinctive style of Japanese garden. It creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. Zen gardens are commonly found at temples or monasteries. A Zen garden is usually relatively small, surrounded by a wall or buildings, and is usually meant to be seen while seated from a single viewpoint outside the garden, such as the porch of the hojo, the residence of the chief monk of the temple or monastery. Many, with gravel rather than grass, are only stepped into for maintenance. Classical Zen gardens were created at temples of Zen Buddhism in Kyoto during the Muromachi period. They were intended to imitate the essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve as an aid for meditation. (Full article...)

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Syringa vulgaris (Lilac or Common Lilac) is a species of Syringa in the olive family, Oleaceae, native to the Balkans in southeastern Europe, where it grows on rocky hills. Lilacs are a very common ornamental plant found in gardens and parks, because of the attractive, sweet smell of its flowers. Most garden plants are cultivars, with flowers varying from white to dark lilac; some have double flowers with the stamens replaced by extra petals.

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... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that American root doctor Valerie Boles was the inspiration for the character Minerva in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its film adaptation?
... that Mel Bartholomew, who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow"?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps, thanks to its very warm microclimate?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?

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