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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 1Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 2Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 3Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 4Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 5Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 6Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 7Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 8White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 9Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 10A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 11Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 12The seven layers of the forest garden (from Forest gardening)
Image 13Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 14Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 15The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 16The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 17Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 18King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 19The 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 20Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 21Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 22Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 23Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 24
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 25Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 26Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 27Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 28Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 29Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 30Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 31
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 32The 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 33Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 34Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 35Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Forest gardening)
Image 36Opening 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 37The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 38Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 39Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 40Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 41The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 42Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 43Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 44Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 45Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 46Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 47Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Forest gardening)
Image 48Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 49Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 50Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 51A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 52Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 53Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 54White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 55Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 56Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 57Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 58Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 59Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 60Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 61Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 62The 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 63Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 64Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 65Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 66Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 67Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)

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William Robinson: FLS (15 July 1838 – 12 May 1935) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularising of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement, and were important in promoting the woodland garden. Robinson is credited as an early practitioner of the mixed herbaceous border of hardy perennial plants, a champion too of the "wild garden", who vanquished the high Victorian pattern garden of planted-out bedding schemes. Robinson's new approach to gardening gained popularity through his magazines and several books—particularly The Wild Garden, illustrated by Alfred Parsons, and The English Flower Garden.

Robinson advocated more natural and less formal-looking plantings of hardy perennials, shrubs, and climbers, and reacted against the High Victorian patterned gardening, which used tropical materials grown in greenhouses. He railed against standard roses, statuary, sham Italian gardens, and other artifices common in gardening at the time. Modern gardening practices first introduced by Robinson include: using alpine plants in rock gardens; dense plantings of perennials and groundcovers that expose no bare soil; use of hardy perennials and native plants; and large plantings of perennials in natural-looking drifts. (Full article...)

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Bonsai trident maple in the root over rock style.

Acer buergerianum

Credit: USDA photo by Peggy Greb

Part of the Penjing collection at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, this trident maple, Acer buergerianum, has its roots growing over a rock and its foliage and stems trimmed in the shape of a dragon.

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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 Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... 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 cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... 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 in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?

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