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

Acer buergerianum

Credit: USDA photo by Peggy Greb

Part of the Penjing collection at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, this trident maple, Acer buergerianum, has its roots growing over a rock and its foliage and stems trimmed in the shape of a dragon.

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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 Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?

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