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

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Wild form of Xerochrysum bracteatum

Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia. Described by Étienne Pierre Ventenat in 1803, it was known as Helichrysum bracteatum for many years before being transferred to a new genus Xerochrysum in 1990. It is an annual up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall with green or grey leafy foliage. Golden yellow or white flower heads are produced from spring to autumn; their distinctive feature is the papery bracts that resemble petals. The species is widespread, growing in a variety of habitats across the country, from rainforest margins to deserts and subalpine areas. The golden everlasting serves as food for various larvae of lepidopterans (butterflies and moths), and adult butterflies, hoverflies, native bees, small beetles, and grasshoppers visit the flower heads.

The golden everlasting has proven very adaptable to cultivation. It was propagated and developed in Germany in the 1850s, and annual cultivars in a host of colour forms from white to bronze to purple flowers became available. Many of these are still sold in mixed seed packs. In Australia, many cultivars are perennial shrubs, which have become popular garden plants. Sturdier, long-stemmed forms are used commercially in the cut flower industry. (Full article...)

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Japanese gardens

Credit: Jjron

Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain Lookout at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW, Australia, 22 September, 2006. Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien), that is, gardens in the traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks, such as Buddhist temples and old castles. Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, known as karesansui.

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... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that American root doctor Valerie Boles was the inspiration for the character Minerva in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its film adaptation?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... 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 Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?

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