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

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Urban agriculture refers to various practices of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in urban areas. The term also applies to the area activities of animal husbandry, aquaculture, beekeeping, and horticulture in an urban context. Urban agriculture is distinguished from peri-urban agriculture, which takes place in rural areas at the edge of suburbs.

Urban agriculture can appear at varying levels of economic and social development. It can involve a movement of organic growers, "foodies" and "locavores", who seek to form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. These networks can develop by way of formal institutional support, becoming integrated into local town planning as a "transition town" movement for sustainable urban development. For others, food security, nutrition, and income generation are key motivations for the practice. In either case, the more direct access to fresh vegetable, fruit, and meat products that may be realised through urban agriculture can improve food security and food safety while decreasing food miles, leading to lower greenhouse gas emissions, thereby contributing to climate change mitigation. (Full article...)

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Japanese gardens

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Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain Lookout at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW, Australia, 22 September, 2006. Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien), that is, gardens in the traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks, such as Buddhist temples and old castles. Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, known as karesansui.

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... 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 Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... 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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