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Introduction

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

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John Reid, *The Scots Gard'ner*, 1683, the first gardening book printed in Scotland

Gardening in Scotland, the design of planned spaces set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature in Scotland began in the Middle Ages.

Gardens, or yards, around medieval abbeys, castles and houses were formal and in the European tradition of herb garden, kitchen garden and orchard. The first Renaissance style gardens in Scotland were built for the Stewart dynasty at their royal palaces. Members of the nobility and gentry followed suit. From the late sixteenth century, the landscaping of many estate houses was influenced by Italian Renaissance gardens. From this period there are many examples of formal gardens created for nobles, gentry and lairds. The legacy of the Auld Alliance and the beginnings of the grand tour meant that French styles were particularly important in Scotland, although adapted for the Scottish climate. In the late seventeenth century William Bruce put Scotland at the forefront of European garden design. (Full article...)

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Lilium

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A picture of a lily flower, Lilium Citronella. Photo taken at the Chanticleer Garden, where its species was identified.

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... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... 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 popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?

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