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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 (from Latin: horti + culture) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and more controlled scale than agronomy. There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: 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 on the part of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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

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Anne Cocker (born Anne Gowen Rennis; 25 May 1920 – 21 November 2014) was a Scottish rose breeder from Aberdeen, Scotland. Cocker and her husband, Alexander Morison Cocker, were owners of the nursery, James Cocker & Sons. From the 1960s to the 2000s, the Cockers introduced more than 100 new rose varieties. Cocker continued to breed roses until her eighties, winning multiple horticultural awards. (Full article...)

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The vigorous young growth of the Tempranillo grape vine vitis vinifera in a typical vineyard in the Catalan Penedès region. One of the most ancient wine regions in Europe, el Penedès is home to some of the most innovative of the so-called Old World growers.

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... that none of the actors in Poppy Garden, a film depicting a father and son's struggle for survival during the Colombian conflict, had previously acted in a film?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that actress Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
... that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
... that the small flowers that give Aquilegia parviflora its name make it unpopular with gardeners?

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