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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 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 1Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 2Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 3A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 4Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 5The 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 6Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 7Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 8Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 9Water garden at Lake Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 10Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 11The 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 12Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 13Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 14Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 15Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 16Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 17Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 18Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 19The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 20
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry
(from History of gardening)
Image 21Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 22Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 23Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 24Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 25Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 26Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 27
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal
(from History of gardening)
Image 28Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 29Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 30Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka (from History of gardening)
Image 31Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 32Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 33Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 34Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 35Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 36Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 37Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 38Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 39Opening 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 40The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 41Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 42King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 43Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 44Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 45Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 46Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 47White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 48The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 49Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 50Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 51A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 52Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 53White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there (from History of gardening)
Image 54The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 55Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 56Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 57Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 58Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 59Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 60Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 61Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 62The 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 63Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 64Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 65Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 66Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 67Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 68Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles (from History of gardening)
Image 69Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 70Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 71A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 72The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 73Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 74Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 75The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 76A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 77Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 78Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)

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A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, or carefully controlled seed production. Most cultivars arise from deliberate human manipulation, but some originate from wild plants that have distinctive characteristics. Cultivar names are chosen according to rules of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), and not all cultivated plants qualify as cultivars. Horticulturists generally believe the word cultivar was coined as a term meaning "cultivated variety".

Popular ornamental plants like roses, camellias, daffodils, rhododendrons, and azaleas are commonly cultivars produced by breeding and selection or as sports, for floral colour or size, plant form, or other desirable characteristics. Similarly, the world's agricultural food crops are almost exclusively cultivars that have been selected for characters such as improved yield, flavour, and resistance to disease. Since the advent of genetic engineering in the 1970's and the rise of its application in crop breeding in the 1980's, very few wild plants are used as commercial food sources. Trees used in forestry are also special selections grown for their enhanced quality and yield of timber, for example American timber company Weyerhaeuser is the leading grower of genetically modified Douglas-fir trees, one of the most commonly harvested trees. (Full article...)

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kavindraCherry Blossom or Sakura (Japanese kanji: 桜 or 櫻; katakana: サクラ; hiragana: さくら) is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Cherry fruit (known as sakuranbo) comes from a different species of tree. Sakura is also a given name. The word "sakura" becomes "zakura", when used in a compound word such as "shidarezakura".

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... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
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... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?

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