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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 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 1The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 2Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 3Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 4Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 5Maize grown under
Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry
)

Image 6Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 7Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
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Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types
)

Image 9Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 10Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 11The 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 12Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 13The
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 14Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 15Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 16Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 17The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 18Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 19Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 20
Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types
)

Image 21Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 22
thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design
)

Image 23
Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types
)

Image 24Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 25
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 26Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 27The
Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design
)

Image 28Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 29Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 30Opening 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 31Triton Lake at
Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening
)

Image 32The
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 33
landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening
)

Image 34Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 35Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 36A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 37Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 38Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 39Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 40Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 41Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 42Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 43
Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design
)

Image 44White Garden at
Color garden (from List of garden types
)

Image 45A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 46Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 47Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 48Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 49Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 50White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 51Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 52Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 53Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 54Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 55
The Renaissance style gardens at
Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening
)

Image 56Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 57Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 58A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 59Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 60Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 61Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 62Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 63Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 64Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 65Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 66
Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types
)

Image 67Hindu
Amer Fort. (from History of gardening
)

Image 68Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 69Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 70
multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types
)

Image 71Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 72King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 73The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 74Alley cropping of
sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry
)

Image 75Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 76The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 77Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the
Persian garden) (from List of garden types
)

Image 78A rock garden in Seiganji,
Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design
)

Image 79The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)

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A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, or carefully controlled seed production. Most cultivars arise from deliberate human manipulation, but some originate from wild plants that have distinctive characteristics. Cultivar names are chosen according to rules of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), and not all cultivated plants qualify as cultivars. Horticulturists generally believe the word cultivar was coined as a term meaning "cultivated variety".

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... 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 Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps, thanks to its very warm microclimate?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
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