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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 1Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 2Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 3The 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 4Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 5Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 6Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 7Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 8Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 9Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 10Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 11Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 12Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 13A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 14Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 15Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 16Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 18Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 19Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 20A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 21Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 22Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 23Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 24Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 25Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 26Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 27Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 28Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 29Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 30A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 31The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 32Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 33The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 34Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 35Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 36Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 37Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 38Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 39White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 40Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 41The 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 42Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 43King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 44The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 45Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 46Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 47Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 48Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 49Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 50Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 51The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 52Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 53Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 54
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 55Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 56Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 57Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 58Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 59Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 60Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 61Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 62Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 63Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 64Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 65Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 66The 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 67Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 68Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 69Opening 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 70Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 71Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 72The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 73Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 74Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 75White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 76The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 77A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 78Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 79Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)

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Hestercombe House

Hestercombe House is a historic country house in the parish of West Monkton in the Quantock Hills, near Taunton in Somerset, England. The house is a Grade II* listed building and the estate is Grade I listed on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

Originally built in the 16th century, the house was used as the headquarters of the British 8th Corps in the Second World War. Somerset County Council assumed ownership in 1951 and use the property as an administrative centre. Hestercombe House served as the Emergency Call Centre for the Somerset Area of Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service until March 2012. (Full article...)

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Cherry blossom

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kavindraCherry Blossom or Sakura (Japanese kanji: 桜 or 櫻; katakana: サクラ; hiragana: さくら) is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Cherry fruit (known as sakuranbo) comes from a different species of tree. Sakura is also a given name. The word "sakura" becomes "zakura", when used in a compound word such as "shidarezakura".

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... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... 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 the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... 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?

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