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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 1The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 2A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
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The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 4The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 5The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 6Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 7Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 8Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 9A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 10The 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 11Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 12Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 13A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 14Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 15The 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 16Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 17Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 18Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 19Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 20White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 21Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 22Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 23Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 24Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 25Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 26Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 27Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 28Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 29Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 30Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 31Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 32Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 33Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 34Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 35Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 36Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 37Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 38Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 39The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 40White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 41Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 42King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (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 44Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 45
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 46Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 47Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 48Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 49A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 50Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 51Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 52The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 53Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 54Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 55Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 56Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 57Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 58Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 59Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 60Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 61Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 62Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 63Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 64Opening 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 65Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 66Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 67Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 68Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 69Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 70Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 71Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 72Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 73Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 74Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 75Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 76The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 77Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 78Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 79Reflection 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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Paris today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees.^{[verification needed]} Two of Paris's oldest and most famous gardens are the Tuileries Garden, created in 1564 for the Tuileries Palace, and redone by André Le Nôtre in 1664;^{[full citation needed]} and the Luxembourg Garden, belonging to a château built for Marie de' Medici in 1612, which today houses the French Senate.^{[full citation needed]} The Jardin des Plantes was the first botanical garden in Paris, created in 1626 by Louis XIII's doctor Guy de La Brosse for the cultivation of medicinal plants. Between 1853 and 1870, the Emperor Napoleon III and the city's first director of parks and gardens, Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, created the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes, Parc Montsouris and the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, located at the four points of the compass around the city, as well as many smaller parks, squares and gardens in the neighborhoods of the city. One hundred sixty-six new parks have been created since 1977, most notably the Parc de la Villette (1987–1991) and Parc André Citroën (1992).

Some of the most notable recent gardens of Paris are not city parks, but parks belonging to museums, including the gardens of the Rodin Museum and the Musée du quai Branly. (Full article...)

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A picture of a lily flower, Lilium Citronella. Photo taken at the Chanticleer Garden, where its species was identified.

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... that Mel Bartholomew, who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow"?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... 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 a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?

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