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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 science, technology, art, and business of cultivating and using plants to improve human life. Horticulturists and Horticultural Scientists create global solutions for safe, sustainable, nutritious food and healthy, restorative, and beautiful environments. 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 1Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 2Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 3Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 4Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 5The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 6White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 7Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 8Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 9Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 10Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 11Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 12Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 13Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 14Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 15Opening 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 16Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 17King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 18Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 19Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 20Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 21Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 22Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 23Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 24The 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 25Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 26Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 27Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 28Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 29Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 30The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 31Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 32Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 33A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 34Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Forest gardening)
Image 35A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 36Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 37Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Forest gardening)
Image 38Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 39Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 40Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 41Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 42Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 43Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 44The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 45Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 46Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 47Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 48Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 49The 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 50Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 51Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 52Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 53Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 54The 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 55
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 56Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 57The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 58Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 59
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 60Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 61White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 62Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 63Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 64Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 65Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 66The seven layers of the forest garden (from Forest gardening)
Image 67Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)

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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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Satellite image of circular crop fields, characteristic of center pivot irrigation, in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. U.S. Route 56 crosses the scene, passing the cities of Sublette (lower left) and Copeland (upper right).

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... that the woodland garden, "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that in 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... 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?

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