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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 and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or 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 of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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

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Botany, also called plant science or phytology, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants, including some 391,000 species of vascular plants (of which approximately 369,000 are flowering plants) and approximately 20,000 bryophytes.

Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – plants that were edible, poisonous, and possibly medicinal, making it one of the first endeavours of human investigation. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to monasteries, contained plants possibly having medicinal benefit. They were forerunners of the first botanical gardens attached to universities, founded from the 1540s onwards. One of the earliest was the Padua botanical garden. These gardens facilitated the academic study of plants. Efforts to catalogue and describe their collections were the beginnings of plant taxonomy and led in 1753 to the binomial system of nomenclature of Carl Linnaeus that remains in use to this day for the naming of all biological species. (Full article...)

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Satellite image of circular crop fields, characteristic of center pivot irrigation, in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. U.S. Route 56 crosses the scene, passing the cities of Sublette (lower left) and Copeland (upper right).

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... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
... 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 the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that in 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students?

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