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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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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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hardscaping (from Garden design)Curved garden paths are a common form of
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- Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from
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Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)Mughal-style courtyard garden at
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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
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Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
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Sofiero Palace garden (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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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 Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.(from History of gardening)
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Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
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Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
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Kuskovo (from History of gardening)Park in
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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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Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
- Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from
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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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Giverny (from History of gardening)
- 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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Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)Contemporary garden in
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Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal),
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)The
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- Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from
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Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
- Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the
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- A rock garden in Seiganji,
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Muskau Park (from History of gardening)The
- The seven layers of the forest garden (from
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Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
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Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)The
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Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
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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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Stowe House (from History of gardening)Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at
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- A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from
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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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Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)Water garden at
- Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from
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Elswout (from History of gardening)
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Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by
- Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from
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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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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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- ... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
- ... that the peak period in England for formal closed canals in gardens was from about the 1690s to 1720s?
- ... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
- ... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
- ... 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 a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
- ... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
- ... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
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