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

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Oregon Garden

The Oregon Garden is an 80-acre (32 ha) botanical garden in Silverton, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1999, it is home to over 20 gardens including the Rose Garden, Children's Garden and Silverton Market Garden. It is open 365 days a year and hosts both public and private events. The land is also home to the Gordon House, Oregon's only Frank Lloyd Wright home, and The Oregon Garden Resort. (Full article...)

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Japanese gardens

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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 Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... 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 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?

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