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

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Banksia spinulosa var. spinulosa,
Georges River National Park

Banksia spinulosa, the hairpin banksia, is a species of woody shrub, of the genus Banksia in the family Proteaceae, native to eastern Australia. Widely distributed, it is found as an understorey plant in open dry forest or heathland from Victoria to northern Queensland, generally on sandstone though sometimes also clay soils. It generally grows as a small shrub to 2 metres (7 ft) in height, though can be a straggly tree to 6 metres (20 ft). It has long narrow leaves with inflorescences which can vary considerably in coloration; while the spikes are gold or less commonly yellowish, the emergent styles may be a wide range of colours – from black, purple, red, orange or yellow.

Banksia spinulosa was named by James Edward Smith in England in 1793, after being collected by John White, most likely in 1792. He gave it the common name prickly-leaved banksia, though this has fallen out of use. With four currently recognised varieties, the species has had a complicated taxonomic history, with two varieties initially described as separate species in the early 19th century. A fourth, from the New England region, has only recently been described. However, there has been disagreement whether one, var. cunninghamii, is distinct enough to once again have specific status. The pre-eminent authority on Banksia, Alex George, concedes there is still more work to be done on the Banksia spinulosa complex. (Full article...)

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Lilium

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A picture of a lily flower, Lilium Citronella. Photo taken at the Chanticleer Garden, where its species was identified.

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... that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
... that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?

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