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Introduction

Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, or ornamental purposes 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.

Home gardening is the practice of cultivating vegetables, fruits, herbs, and ornamental plants within residential spaces for personal use. It contributes to food security, biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and physical well-being. (Full article...)

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

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Jelena de Belder-Kovačič (23 August 1925 – 31 August 2003) was a Slovenian-Belgian botanist and horticulturist, who worked extensively on the taxonomy and preservation of plant specimens, gaining an international reputation for her development of the Kalmthout and Hemelrijk Arboreta. Several varieties of plants she cultivated were recognized with awards from the Royal Horticultural Society in London and she was elevated to Baroness by Albert II of Belgium for her contributions to dendrology. (Full article...)

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A picture of a lily flower, Lilium Citronella. Photo taken at the Chanticleer Garden, where its species was identified.

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... that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
... that the orange stonecrop is a successful garden escapee?
... that whistleblower and self-confessed ex-hitman Edgar Matobato fled the Philippines with a fake passport while posing as a gardener?
... that Baháʼí Houses of Worship are nine-sided, with nine gardens and nine pathways, because the number nine is symbolically significant in the Baháʼí Faith?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... 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"?
... that Robert Baker Park in Baltimore was named after Robert Lewis Baker, whose personal garden was recreated at the city's Flower and Garden Show the year after his death?

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