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Introduction

A gardener maintaining topiary in Tulcán, Ecuador

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, all the way to container gardens grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a variety of plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active participation in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry. (Full article...)

Horticulture is the art of cultivating plants in gardens to produce food and medicinal ingredients, or for comfort and ornamental purposes. Horticulturists are agriculturists who grow flowers, fruits and nuts, vegetables and herbs, as well as ornamental trees and lawns. (Full article...)

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Image 1Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 2Sofiero Castle garden (from History of gardening)
Image 3White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 4Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 5Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 7The 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 8Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 9Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 10Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 11Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 12A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 13Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 14White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 15Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 16Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 17Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 18
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 19Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 20Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 21Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 22Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 23Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 24A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 25Sigiriya gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 26Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 27Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 28The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 29Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 30Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 31Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 32The 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 33Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
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 35
The Mughal-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 36Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 37Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 38Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 39Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 40Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 41Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 42Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 43Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 44Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 45The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 46King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 47The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 48Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 49Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 50Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 51Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 52Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 53Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 54Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 55Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 56Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 57The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 58Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 59Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 60Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 61Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BCE (from History of gardening)

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Diversity of angiosperms

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspɜːrmiː/), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words angeion ('container, vessel') and sperma ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (/mæɡˌnoʊliˈɒfətə, -əˈfaɪtə/).

Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. (Full article...)

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Japanese gardens

Credit: Jjron

Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain Lookout at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW, Australia, 22 September, 2006. Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien), that is, gardens in the traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks, such as Buddhist temples and old castles. Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, known as karesansui.

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... that all three of the pleasure gardens run by the entrepreneur Thomas Clapham in Leeds and London failed due to debt and were sold for housing?
... that a cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... that the woodland garden, "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
... that Paul McCartney's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
... that the cemetery of what is now Fordham University had to be relocated in 1889 to make way for the New York Botanical Garden?
... that in a 1922 letter to the editor, Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamships and roof gardens at the time?
... that Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York, was developed from the 1930s by a painter fascinated with an 8th-century Chinese artist, and a landscape architect from Harvard?

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