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

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The durian (/ˈdʊəriən/ ^ⓘ) is the edible fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio. There are 30 recognized species, at least nine of which produce edible fruit. Durio zibethinus, native to Borneo and Sumatra, is the only species available on the international market. It has over 300 named varieties in Thailand and over 200 in Malaysia as of 2021. Other species are sold in their local regions.

Known in some regions as the "king of fruits", the durian is distinctive for its large size, strong odour, and thorn-covered rind. The fruit can grow as large as 30 cm (12 in) long and 15 cm (6 in) in diameter, and it typically weighs 1 to 3 kg (2 to 7 lb). Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk from green to brown, and its flesh from pale yellow to red, depending on the species. (Full article...)

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The vigorous young growth of the Tempranillo grape vine vitis vinifera in a typical vineyard in the Catalan Penedès region. One of the most ancient wine regions in Europe, el Penedès is home to some of the most innovative of the so-called Old World growers.

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... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
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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 Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
... that the small flowers that give Aquilegia parviflora its name make it unpopular with gardeners?

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