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

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Acacia pycnantha, most commonly known as the golden wattle, is a tree of the family Fabaceae. It grows to a height of 8 metres (26 feet) and has phyllodes (flattened leaf stalks) instead of true leaves. The profuse fragrant, golden flowers appear in late winter and spring, followed by long seed pods. Explorer Thomas Mitchell collected the type specimen, from which George Bentham wrote the species description in 1842. The species is native to southeastern Australia as an understorey plant in eucalyptus forest. Plants are cross-pollinated by several species of honeyeater and thornbill, which visit nectaries on the phyllodes and brush against flowers, transferring pollen between them.

A. pycnantha has become a weed in areas of Australia, as well as in Africa and Eurasia. Its bark produces more tannin than any other wattle species, resulting in its commercial cultivation for production of this compound. It has been widely grown as an ornamental garden plant and for cut flower production. A. pycnantha was made the official floral emblem of Australia in 1988, and has been featured on the country's postal stamps. (Full article...)

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Syringa vulgaris (Lilac or Common Lilac) is a species of Syringa in the olive family, Oleaceae, native to the Balkans in southeastern Europe, where it grows on rocky hills. Lilacs are a very common ornamental plant found in gardens and parks, because of the attractive, sweet smell of its flowers. Most garden plants are cultivars, with flowers varying from white to dark lilac; some have double flowers with the stamens replaced by extra petals.

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... 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?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?

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