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

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Pekarangan (Indonesian pronunciation: [pə'karaŋan]) is a type of tropical home garden developed in Indonesia, mainly in Java. Pekarangans typically contain plants, while some possess animals (including farmed fish, ruminants, poultry, and wild animals) and structures such as pens and bird cages. The gardens yield food for subsistence and income, and plants for ornamental use. Along with their subsistence and commercial uses, they are used for social interactions and yield sharing and provide materials for cultural ceremonies and religious practices. Some pekarangans are made, maintained, and spatially arranged according to local values. Home gardens of this kind may have existed for several thousand years, but their first mention is found in a Javanese chronicle that was written in 860 AD. In 2010, around 103,000 square kilometers (40,000 sq mi) of Indonesian land were used for gardens of this sort.

The sustainability and social roles of pekarangans have been threatened by mass urbanization and land fragmentation, which are the factors of decreasing land dwelling area on average. The decrease is consequently followed by loss of plant diversity within the gardens. Additionally, some owners deliberately reduce the plant diversity to optimize yields for commercial purposes. Problems such as pest outbreaks and a rise in household debts have appeared due to the degraded sustainability of the gardens. (Full article...)

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Maize (/ˈmeɪz/) (Zea mays L. ssp. mays), known as corn in the Americas and Australia, is a cereal grain that was domesticated in Mesoamerica and then spread throughout the American continents. Maize spread to the rest of the world after the European colonization of the Americas in the late 15th century and early 16th century.

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... 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 Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... 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 Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that the runway at the Winter Garden Theatre was nicknamed the "bridge of thighs" after lightly clothed showgirls paraded down it?
... 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?

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