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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 1Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 2Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 3Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 4Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 5Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 6Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 7Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 8Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 9Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 10The 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 11Ryoan-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 Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 13Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 14Opening 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 15Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Forest gardening)
Image 16The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 17Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 18Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 19Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 20Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 21A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 22Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 23Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 24White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 25Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 26The seven layers of the forest garden (from Forest gardening)
Image 27Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 28
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 29White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 30Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Forest gardening)
Image 31Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 32Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 33Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 34Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 35Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 36Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 37The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 38Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 39Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 40Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 41Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 42Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 43The 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 44Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 45Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 46Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 47Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 48Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 49Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 50The 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 51Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 52Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 53A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 54Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 55Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 56Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 57Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 58Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 59Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 60Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 61Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 62Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 63The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 64King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 65The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 66Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 67Giverny (from History of gardening)

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Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspərmiː/), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον / angeion ('container, vessel') and σπέρμα / sperma ('seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (/mæɡˌnoʊliˈɒfətə, -əˈfaɪtə/).

Angiosperms are distinguished from the other seed-producing plants, the gymnosperms, by having flowers, xylem consisting of vessel elements instead of tracheids, endosperm within their seeds, and fruits that completely envelop the seeds.

The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. In the Cretaceous, angiosperms diversified explosively, becoming the dominant group of plants across the planet. (Full article...)

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Center pivot irrigation

Credit: Howcheng, NASA

Satellite image of circular crop fields, characteristic of center pivot irrigation, in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. U.S. Route 56 crosses the scene, passing the cities of Sublette (lower left) and Copeland (upper right).

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... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... 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 the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
... 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 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 Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?

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