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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 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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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 2Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 3Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 4Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 5Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 6Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 7The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 8Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 9Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 10Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 11Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 12King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 13Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 14Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 15Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 16Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 17Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 18Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 19Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 20Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 21Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 22Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 23A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 24Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 25Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 26Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 27Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 28The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 29Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 30Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 31Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
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 33The 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 34The 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 35Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 36Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 37Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 38The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 39Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 40White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 41Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 42The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 43Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 44A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 45The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 46Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 47A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 48Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 49Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 50Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 51Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 52Opening 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 53Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 54Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 55Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 56
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 57Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 58Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 59Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 60A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 61Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 62Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 63Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 64Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 65Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 66Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 67Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 68The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 69Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 70Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 71Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 72Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 73Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 74White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 75Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 76Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 77Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 78Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 79Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)

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A community garden is a piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively. Normally in community gardens, the land is divided into individual plots. Each individual gardener is responsible for their own plot and the yielding or the production of which belongs to the individual. In collective gardens the piece of land is not divided. A group of people cultivate it together and the harvest belongs to all participants. Around the world, community gardens exist in various forms, it can be located in the proximity of neighborhoods or on balconies and rooftops. Its size can vary greatly from one to another.

Community gardens have experienced three waves of major development in North America. The earliest wave of community gardens development coincided with the industrial revolution and rapid urbanization process in Europe and North America; they were then called 'Jardin d'ouvrier' (or workers' garden). The second wave of community garden development happened during the WWI and WWII; they were part of "Liberty Gardens" and "Victory Gardens" respectively. The most recent wave of community garden development happened in the 1970s during the OPEC crisis, results of grassroots movement in quest for available land to combat against food insecurity. (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 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 a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that the woodland garden, "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?

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