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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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Image 1Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 2Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 3Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 4Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 5Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 6The 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 7Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 8Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 9Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 10King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 11The 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 12
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 13Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 14Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 15Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 16Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 17Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 18Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 19Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 20White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 21Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 22Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 23Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Forest gardening)
Image 24The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 25Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 26Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 27Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 28Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 29Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 30Opening 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 31Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 32Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 33Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 34Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 35Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 36Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 37Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 38Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 39Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 40Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 41Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 42
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 43Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 44White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 45Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 46Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 47Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 48Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 49Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 50Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 51Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 52Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 53The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 54Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 55Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 56The 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 57Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 58Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 59Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 60The seven layers of the forest garden (from Forest gardening)
Image 61A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 62A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 63Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Forest gardening)
Image 64Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 65The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 66Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 67The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)

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The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times. Smaller gardens generally had being a kitchen garden as their first priority, as is still often the case.

The broad traditions that have dominated gardening since ancient times include those of the Ancient Near East, which became the Islamic garden, the Mediterranean, which produced the Roman garden, hugely influencing later European gardening, and the Chinese garden and its development on the Japanese garden. While the basic gardening techniques were fairly well understood by trial and error from early on, the plants available in a particular location have changed enormously, especially in recent centuries. Many new groups of plants have been introduced from other parts of the world, and the ornamental plants now used are mostly cultivars bred to improve qualities such as colour, length of flowering, size and hardiness. (Full article...)

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Japanese gardens

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Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain Lookout at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW, Australia, 22 September, 2006. Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien), that is, gardens in the traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks, such as Buddhist temples and old castles. Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, known as karesansui.

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... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... 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 actress Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that a cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?

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