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

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Historic Michigan Boulevard District and Randolph Street streetwalls from Lurie Garden

Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m²) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by GGN (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol), Piet Oudolf, and Robert Israel, it opened on July 16, 2004. The garden is a combination of perennials, bulbs, native prairie grasses, shrubs and trees. It is the featured nature component of the world's largest green roof. The garden cost $13.2 million and has a $10 million endowment for maintenance and upkeep. It was named after Ann Lurie, who donated the $10 million endowment. For visitors, the garden features guided walks, lectures, interactive demonstrations, family festivals and picnics.

The Garden is composed of two "plates" protected on two sides by large hedges. The dark plate depicts Chicago's history by presenting shade-loving plant material. The dark plate has a combination of trees that will provide a shade canopy for these plants when they fill in. The light plate, which includes no trees, represents the city's future with sun-loving perennials that thrive in the heat and the sun. (Full article...)

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Center pivot irrigation

Credit: Howcheng, NASA

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 the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps, thanks to its very warm microclimate?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?
... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?

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