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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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Ryoan-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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Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
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Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
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Giverny (from History of gardening)
- Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from
- Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from
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Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by
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The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.(from History of gardening)
- Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from
- A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from
- Gardeners gardening at
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Orangerie in the Gardens of Versailles with the Pièce d’eau des Suisses in the background (French formal garden) (from List of garden types)The
- Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the
- Scale model of the
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Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
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Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)The
- Contemporary water feature (from
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Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
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Stowe House (from History of gardening)Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at
- The park at
- White Garden at
- The seven layers of the forest garden (from
- White garden at
- Opening 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
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Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
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- Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from
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hardscaping (from Garden design)Curved garden paths are a common form of
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Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)King
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Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
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Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)Mughal-style courtyard garden at
- Triton Lake at
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Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)Water garden at
- Contemporary garden (from
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)The
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Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
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Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal),
- Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from
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Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.(from History of gardening)
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Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)Contemporary garden in
- Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from
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Muskau Park (from History of gardening)The
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Kuskovo (from History of gardening)Park in
- A rock garden in Seiganji,
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Elswout (from History of gardening)
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Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
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Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
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Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
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Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
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Royal Botanical Gardens (Ontario), designed by J. Austin Floyd in 1965. (from History of gardening)The Oak Allee in the Gardens in Hendrie Park at
- Autumn colours at
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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)The
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- ... that the woodland garden, "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
- ... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
- ... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
- ... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
- ... that Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
- ... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
- ... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
- ... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
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