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

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The cottage garden is a distinct style that uses informal design, traditional materials, dense plantings, and a mixture of ornamental and edible plants. English in origin, it depends on grace and charm rather than grandeur and formal structure. Homely and functional gardens connected to cottages go back centuries, but their stylized reinvention occurred in 1870s England, as a reaction to the more structured, rigorously maintained estate gardens with their formal designs and mass plantings of greenhouse annuals.

The earliest cottage gardens were more practical than today's, with emphasis on vegetables and herbs, fruit trees, perhaps a beehive, and even livestock. Flowers, used to fill spaces, gradually became more dominant. The traditional cottage garden was usually enclosed, perhaps with a rose-bowered gateway. Flowers common to early cottage gardens included traditional florists' flowers such as primroses and violets, along with flowers with household use such as calendula and various herbs. Others were the richly scented old-fashioned roses that bloomed once a year, and simple flowers like daisies. In time, cottage-garden sections were added to some large estate gardens as well. (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 Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that the peak period in England for formal closed canals in gardens was from about the 1690s to 1720s?
... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?

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