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Introduction

A gardener maintaining topiary in Tulcán, Ecuador

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, all the way to container gardens grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a variety of plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active participation in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry. (Full article...)

Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and non-food crops such as grass and ornamental trees and plants. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture, ornamental trees and lawns. (Full article...)

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Image 1Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 2Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 3Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 4Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 5Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 6Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 7Sofiero Castle garden (from History of gardening)
Image 8Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 9
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 10Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 11Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 12Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 13Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 14Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 15Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 16Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 17Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 18Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 19Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 20Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 21Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 22The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 23Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 24
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 25White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 26Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 27Opening 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 28Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 29Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 30Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 31The 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 32Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 33Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 34Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 35White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 36The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 37Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 38King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 39Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 40Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
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 42Sigiriya gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 43The 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 44Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 45A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 46Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 47The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 48Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 49Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 50Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 51Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 52Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 53Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 54Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 55Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 56The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 57Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 58A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 59Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 60Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 61Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 62Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)

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Monticello

The Gardens of Monticello were gardens first designed by Thomas Jefferson for his plantation Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson's detailed historical accounts of his 5,000 acres provide much information about the ever-changing contents of the gardens. The areas included a flower garden, a fruit orchard, and a vegetable garden. Jefferson, a connoisseur of trees, flowers, and gardening techniques, was highly interested in experimental planting and directed the design of the gardens, which contained many exotic seeds and plants from his travels abroad.

The gardens declined after Jefferson's death in 1826, when his estate was encumbered with debt. Since 1938, when the Thomas Jefferson Foundation invited its participation, the Garden Club of Virginia has worked to restore and maintain the gardens with historical accuracy. (Full article...)

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Cherry blossom

Credit: PiccoloNamek

kavindraCherry Blossom or Sakura (Japanese kanji: 桜 or 櫻; katakana: サクラ; hiragana: さくら) is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Cherry fruit (known as sakuranbo) comes from a different species of tree. Sakura is also a given name. The word "sakura" becomes "zakura", when used in a compound word such as "shidarezakura".

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... that the runway at the Winter Garden Theatre was nicknamed the "bridge of thighs" after lightly clothed showgirls paraded down it?
... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
... 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 the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that the statue of Billie Holiday in Upton, Baltimore, also depicts a crow eating a gardenia?

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