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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 is the art and science of growing plants. This definition is seen in its etymology, which is derived from the Latin words hortus, which means "garden" and cultura which means "to cultivate". There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: gardening, plant production/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 of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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Image 1Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 2Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 3The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 4Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 5Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 6Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 7Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 8Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 9Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 10Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 11A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 12The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 13Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 14Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 15A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 16Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 17Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 18Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 19Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 20Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 21Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 22Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 23
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 24Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 25Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 26Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 27A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 28Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 29Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 30Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 31Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 32The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 33A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 34Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 35Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 36Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 37The 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 38Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 39The 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 40Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 41Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 42White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 43Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 44Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 45Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 46Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 47Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 48Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 49Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 50Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 51Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 52Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 53The 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 54Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 55Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 56Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 57Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 58Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 59King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 60Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 61The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 62Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 63
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 64Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 65The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 66Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 67The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 68Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 69White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 70Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 71Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 72Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 73Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 74Opening 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 75Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 76Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 77Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 78Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 79Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)

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The moss garden at the Saihō-ji temple in Kyoto, started in 1339

Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest a natural landscape, and to express the fragility of existence as well as time's unstoppable advance. Ancient Japanese art inspired past garden designers. Water is an important feature of many gardens, as are rocks and often gravel. Despite there being many attractive Japanese flowering plants, herbaceous flowers generally play much less of a role in Japanese gardens than in the West, though seasonally flowering shrubs and trees are important, all the more dramatic because of the contrast with the usual predominant green. Evergreen plants are "the bones of the garden" in Japan. Though a natural-seeming appearance is the aim, Japanese gardeners often shape their plants, including trees, with great rigour. Japanese literature on gardening goes back almost a thousand years, and several different styles of garden have developed, some with religious or philosophical implications. A characteristic of Japanese gardens is that they are designed to be seen from specific points. Some of the most significant different traditional styles of Japanese garden are the chisen-shoyū-teien ("lake-spring-boat excursion garden"), which was imported from China during the Heian period (794–1185). These were designed to be seen from small boats on the central lake. No original examples of these survive, but they were replaced by the "paradise garden" associated with Pure Land Buddhism, with a Buddha shrine on an island in the lake. Later large gardens are often in the kaiyū-shiki-teien, or promenade garden style, designed to be seen from a path circulating around the garden, with fixed stopping points for viewing. Specialized styles, often small sections in a larger garden, include the moss garden, the dry garden with gravel and rocks, associated with Zen Buddhism, the roji or teahouse garden, designed to be seen only from a short pathway, and the tsubo-niwa, a very small urban garden. (Full article...)

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Cherry blossom

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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 the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... 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?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... 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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