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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 1Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 2Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 3Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 4Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 5Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 6Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 7Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 8Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 9The 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 10Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (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)
Image 12Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Forest gardening)
Image 13Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 14Giverny (from History of gardening)
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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 16Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 17Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 18Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 19Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 20Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 21Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 22Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 23Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 24Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 25Opening 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 26Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 27Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 28Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 29Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 30A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 31Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Forest gardening)
Image 32Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 33Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 34White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 35Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 36
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 37Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 38The 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 39White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 40Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 41Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 42Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
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 44The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 45Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 46The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 47Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 48Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 49Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 50Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 51Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 52A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 53Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 54The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 55The 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 56Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 57Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 58Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 59King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 60The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 61Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 62Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 63Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 64Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 65The seven layers of the forest garden (from Forest gardening)
Image 66Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 67Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)

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Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word βοτάνη (botanē) meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or "fodder"; βοτάνη is in turn derived from βόσκειν (boskein), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes.

Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – plants that were edible, poisonous, and possibly medicinal, making it one of the first endeavours of human investigation. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to monasteries, contained plants possibly having medicinal benefit. They were forerunners of the first botanical gardens attached to universities, founded from the 1540s onwards. One of the earliest was the Padua botanical garden. These gardens facilitated the academic study of plants. Efforts to catalogue and describe their collections were the beginnings of plant taxonomy, and led in 1753 to the binomial system of nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus that remains in use to this day for the naming of all biological species. (Full article...)

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... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that the runway at the Winter Garden Theatre was nicknamed the "bridge of thighs" after lightly clothed showgirls paraded down it?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?

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