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

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The French formal garden, also called the jardin à la française (French for 'garden in the French manner'), is a style of "landscape" garden based on symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. Its epitome is generally considered to be the Gardens of Versailles designed during the 17th century by the landscape architect André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV and widely copied by other European courts. (Full article...)

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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 former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that none of the actors in Poppy Garden, a film depicting a father and son's struggle for survival during the Colombian conflict, had previously acted in a film?
... 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"?

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