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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 art and science of growing plants. 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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- Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from
- White Garden at
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Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
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Kuskovo (from History of gardening)Park in
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Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)The flower of an
- Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from
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Villa d'Este (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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Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
- Contemporary garden (from
- Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from
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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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Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
- A rock garden in Seiganji,
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Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)Mughal-style courtyard garden at
- Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from
- 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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Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
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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
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Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal),
- The seven layers of the forest garden (from
- White garden at
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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
- Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from
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Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
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Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by
- Contemporary water feature (from
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Giverny (from History of gardening)
- Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (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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Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)Water garden at
- Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from
- Triton Lake at
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Muskau Park (from History of gardening)The
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The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.(from History of gardening)
- Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (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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Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
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Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)The
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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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Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)Contemporary garden in
- Kuojtakiloyan (from
- Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the
- Scale model of the
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Stowe House (from History of gardening)Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at
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Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
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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)
- A temperate Syntropic system in
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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)
- Maize grown under
- Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from
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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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Elswout (from History of gardening)
- Gardeners gardening at
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- A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from
- Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from
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riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)A
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hardscaping (from Garden design)Curved garden paths are a common form of
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Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
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Plant nutrition is the study of the chemical elements and compounds necessary for plant growth and reproduction, plant metabolism and their external supply. In its absence the plant is unable to complete a normal life cycle, or that the element is part of some essential plant constituent or metabolite. This is in accordance with Justus von Liebig's law of the minimum. The total essential plant nutrients include seventeen different elements: carbon, oxygen and hydrogen which are absorbed from the air, whereas other nutrients including nitrogen are typically obtained from the soil (exceptions include some parasitic or carnivorous plants).
Plants must obtain the following mineral nutrients from their growing medium:
- The macronutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), sulfur (S), magnesium (Mg), carbon (C), hydrogen (H), oxygen (O)
- The micronutrients (or trace minerals): iron (Fe), boron (B), chlorine (Cl), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni) (Full article...)
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- ... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
- ... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
- ... 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 Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps, thanks to its very warm microclimate?
- ... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
- ... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
- ... that in 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students?
- ... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
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