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Introduction

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

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Wild form of Xerochrysum bracteatum

Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia. Described by Étienne Pierre Ventenat in 1803, it was known as Helichrysum bracteatum for many years before being transferred to a new genus Xerochrysum in 1990. It is an annual up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall with green or grey leafy foliage. Golden yellow or white flower heads are produced from spring to autumn; their distinctive feature is the papery bracts that resemble petals. The species is widespread, growing in a variety of habitats across the country, from rainforest margins to deserts and subalpine areas. The golden everlasting serves as food for various larvae of lepidopterans (butterflies and moths), and adult butterflies, hoverflies, native bees, small beetles, and grasshoppers visit the flower heads.

The golden everlasting has proven very adaptable to cultivation. It was propagated and developed in Germany in the 1850s, and annual cultivars in a host of colour forms from white to bronze to purple flowers became available. Many of these are still sold in mixed seed packs. In Australia, many cultivars are perennial shrubs, which have become popular garden plants. Sturdier, long-stemmed forms are used commercially in the cut flower industry. (Full article...)

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Syringa

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Syringa vulgaris (Lilac or Common Lilac) is a species of Syringa in the olive family, Oleaceae, native to the Balkans in southeastern Europe, where it grows on rocky hills. Lilacs are a very common ornamental plant found in gardens and parks, because of the attractive, sweet smell of its flowers. Most garden plants are cultivars, with flowers varying from white to dark lilac; some have double flowers with the stamens replaced by extra petals.

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... that whistleblower and self-confessed ex-hitman Edgar Matobato fled the Philippines with a fake passport while posing as a gardener?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that Baháʼí Houses of Worship are nine-sided, with nine gardens and nine pathways, because the number nine is symbolically significant in the Baháʼí Faith?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?

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