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Introduction

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 (from Latin: horti + culture) 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 1Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 2Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 3Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 4Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 5Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 6The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 7Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 8White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 9Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 10Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 11Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 12The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 13The 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 14Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 15Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 16Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 17The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 18Opening 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 19Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 20Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 21Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 22Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 23Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 24Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 25Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 26Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka (from History of gardening)
Image 27Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 28Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 29Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 30Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles (from History of gardening)
Image 31Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 32The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 33Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 34Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 35White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there (from History of gardening)
Image 36Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 37Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 38A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 39Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 40The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 41King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 42Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 43Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 44Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 45Water garden at Lake Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 46Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 47Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 48Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 49The 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 50A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 51Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 52Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 53Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 54The 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 55Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 56Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 57Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 58Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 59Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 60Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 61Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 62Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 63Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 64A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 65
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal
(from History of gardening)
Image 66Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 67The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 68Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 69Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 70Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya, 2nd–1st centuries BC (from History of gardening)
Image 71Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 72Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 73A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 74Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 75
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry
(from History of gardening)
Image 76Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 77Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 78Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)

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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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Bonsai trident maple in the root over rock style.

Acer buergerianum

Credit: USDA photo by Peggy Greb

Part of the Penjing collection at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, this trident maple, Acer buergerianum, has its roots growing over a rock and its foliage and stems trimmed in the shape of a dragon.

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... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Olive Garden and Chili's got in a ship war over Destiel?
... 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?

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