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Introduction

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 cultivation of plants in gardens or greenhouses, as opposed to the field-scale production of crops characteristic of agriculture. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and non-food crops such as grass and ornamental trees and plants. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture, ornamental trees and lawns. (Full article...)

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Image 1Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 2Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 4The 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 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 6
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 7Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 8Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 9Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 10A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 11Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 12Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 13Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 14Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 15King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 16Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 17The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 18Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 19Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 20Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 21Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 22Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 23Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 24The 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 25Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 26The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 27Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 28Sofiero Castle garden (from History of gardening)
Image 29Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 30Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 31Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 32Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
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 34White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 35Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 36Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 37Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 38Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 39White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 40Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 41Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 42Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 43Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 44Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 45Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 46Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 47Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 48Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 49Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 50Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 51Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 52Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 53Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 54The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 55Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 56Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 57Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 58Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 59Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 60A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 61The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 62Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 63Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 64Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (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 the former graveyard of St Michael and All Angels Church, Sunninghill, is in the front garden of the house next door?
... that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne?
... 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 Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... 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 runway at the Winter Garden Theatre was nicknamed the "bridge of thighs" after lightly clothed showgirls paraded down it?
... that Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
... that Schlosspark Biebrich, the garden at a former residence of the Duchy of Nassau on the Rhine, is the venue of the Internationales Pfingstturnier Wiesbaden?

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