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

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The List of Narcissus horticultural divisions is a classification of the cultivated varieties of the genus Narcissus (/nɑːrˈsɪsəs/), which are predominantly spring perennial plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. Most species and cultivars are known by the common name daffodil, while a few are called jonquils.

The list of Narcissus horticultural divisions provided by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the standard method used to classify and describe cultivated varieties (cultivars) of Narcissus. It is widely used since the RHS is the international authority for the registration of such cultivars. For horticultural purposes, all Narcissus cultivars are split into 13 divisions, as described by Kington (1998), for the RHS, based partly upon flower form (shape and length of corona – the "trumpet" or "cup"), particularly the ratio of corona to length of perianth segments (tepals or "petals"), the number of flowers per stem, flowering period and partly upon the genetic background. Division 11 (Split-corona) with its two subdivisions was the most recent group to be described (1969). Division 13, which includes all the wild rather than cultivated daffodils, is the exception to this scheme.

This classification is a useful tool for planning planting. Most commercially available narcissi come from Divisions 1 (Trumpet), 2 (Large-cupped) and 8 (Tazetta). (Full article...)

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Lantana camara

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Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial plants, native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa, and existing as an imported plant in numerous areas, especially in the Australian - Pacific region. The genus includes both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5 m to 2 m tall. Their common names are shrub verbenas or lantanas.

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... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
... 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 former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... 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 the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... 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 in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?

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