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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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Image 1Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 2The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 3Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 4Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 5
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 6Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 7Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 8Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 9Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 10
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 11Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 12Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 13Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 14Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 15Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 16Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 17Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 18A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 19The 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 20The 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 21Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 22Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 23Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 24Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 25Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 26The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 27Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 28Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 29Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 30A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 31The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 32Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 33White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 34Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 35Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 36A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 37Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 38Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 39Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 40Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 41Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 42Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 43Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 44Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 45Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 46Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 47Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 48Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 49Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 50Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 51Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 52King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 53Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 54The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 55Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 56Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 57The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 58Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 59Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 60Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 61Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 62Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 63Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 64Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 65Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 66Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 67Opening 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 68Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 69Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 70Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 71A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 72Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 73Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 74Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 75Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 76White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 77The 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 78Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 79The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)

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Human cultivation and use of saffron spans more than 3,500 years and extends across cultures, continents, and civilizations. Saffron, a spice derived from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), has through history remained among the world's most costly substances. With its bitter taste, hay-like fragrance, and slight metallic notes, the apocarotenoid-rich saffron has been used as a seasoning, fragrance, dye, and medicine.

The wild precursor of domesticated saffron crocus was likely Crocus cartwrightianus, a plant native to mainland Greece, Euboea, Crete, Skyros and some islands of the Cyclades. This species has been used as a wild source of saffron. A study reported in 2019 that the authors considered that a cross between two cytotypes of Crocus cartwrightianus was responsible for the emergence of Crocus sativus. This was probably a unique or very rare event as there is no genetic diversity in commercial saffron today. Another study in 2019 showed that a population of Crocus cartwrightianus near Athens in Attica was the closest match to the theoretical ancestors of Crocus sativus. (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 a cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... 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 New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... 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 Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... 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"?

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