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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 fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and more controlled scale than agronomy. There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: 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 on the part of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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Image 1Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 2Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 3Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
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The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry
(from History of gardening)
Image 5Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 6Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 7A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 8Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 9Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 10The 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 11Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 12Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 13Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 14Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 15Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 16The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 17Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 18Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 19Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 20Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 21Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya, 2nd–1st centuries BC (from History of gardening)
Image 22The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 23Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 24King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 25Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 26White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there (from History of gardening)
Image 27Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 28Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 29A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 30The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 31Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 32Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 33Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 34Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 35Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 36Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 37Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 38The 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 39Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 40Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 41Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 42A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 43Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 44Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 45Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 46Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 47A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 48Water garden at Lake Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 49Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 50Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 51The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 52The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 53Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 54Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 55Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 56Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 57Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 58Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 59The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 60Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 61Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 62Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 63Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 64Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 65Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 66Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 67Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 68Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 69Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 70The 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 71Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 72White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 73Opening 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 74Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 75
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal
(from History of gardening)
Image 76Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka (from History of gardening)
Image 77Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 78Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles (from History of gardening)

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Antoine '("Papa") Meilland (1884–1971) was a French rose grower and co-founder of Meilland International, a large rose growing company in southern France. As a young man, he worked as a nursery assistant for rose breeder, Francis Dubreuil. Antoine married, Dubreuil's daughter, Claudia in 1909 and their son Francis, was born in 1912. Antoine was drafted into the French army when France entered the War in 1914, and Claudia managed the nursery in his absence. Dubreuil died in 1916. When Antoine returned to Lyon, after the war, he and Claudia took over the management of the family business.

In 1919, with the goal of expanding their nursery business, Antoine and Claudia moved to Tassin-la-Demi-Lune. Their son, Francis, followed his parents into the rose business. He was a talented and prolific rose breeder, and is best remembered for developing the legendary 'Peace' rose in 1939. The new rose variety was introduced in 1945 and was a tremendous commercial success. In 1946, the Meilland family sold a majority of their business to rosarian and business owner, Francisque Richardier, so that Francis could devote himself solely to breeding roses. The new company became the Meilland-Richardier company, which is now a subsidiary of Mielland International. (Full article...)

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Center pivot irrigation

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Satellite image of circular crop fields, characteristic of center pivot irrigation, in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. U.S. Route 56 crosses the scene, passing the cities of Sublette (lower left) and Copeland (upper right).

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... 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 bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that the orange stonecrop is a successful garden escapee?
... that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?

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