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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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Giverny (from History of gardening)
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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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Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)King
- White Garden at
- White garden at
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Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by
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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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Stowe House (from History of gardening)Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at
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Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)The
- A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from
- Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (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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Elswout (from History of gardening)
- Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (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)
- Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from
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Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
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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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Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)Water garden at
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Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
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Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
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Kuskovo (from History of gardening)Park in
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Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)Mughal-style courtyard garden 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)
- Contemporary garden (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)
- Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from
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Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
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Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
- Labyrinth
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Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
- The seven layers of the forest garden (from
- Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from
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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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hardscaping (from Garden design)Curved garden paths are a common form of
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Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
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Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)The
- 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
- A rock garden in Seiganji,
- Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the
- Gardeners gardening at
- Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from
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Muskau Park (from History of gardening)The
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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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The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.(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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Did you know -
- ... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
- ... 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 Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
- ... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
- ... that the peak period in England for formal closed canals in gardens was from about the 1690s to 1720s?
- ... 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 Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
- ... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
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