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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 art and science of growing plants. This definition is seen in its etymology, which is derived from the Latin words hortus, which means "garden" and cultura which means "to cultivate". There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: gardening, plant production/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 1Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 2Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 3The 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 4Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 5Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 6Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 7Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 8Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 9Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 10The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 11Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 12Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 13Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 14Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 15Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 16Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 17Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 18Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 19Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 20Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 21Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 22Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 23The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 24Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 25Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 26Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 27Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 28Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 29Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 30Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 31Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 32Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 33Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (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 35The 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 36A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 37Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 38Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 39Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 40Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 41A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 42Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 43Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 44Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 45Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 46A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 47The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 48Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 49A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 50Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 51Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 52King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 53Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 54Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 55Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 56
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 57Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 58The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 59Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 60Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 61The 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 62Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 63Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 64Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 65The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 66Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 67Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 68Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 69Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 70White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 71Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 72
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 73Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 74Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 75Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 76The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 77Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 78Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 79White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)

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The List of Narcissus horticultural divisions is a classification of the cultivated varieties of the genus Narcissus (/nɑːrˈsɪsəs/), which are predominantly spring perennial plants in the family Amaryllidaceae. Most species and cultivars are known by the common name daffodil, while a few are called jonquils.

The list of Narcissus horticultural divisions provided by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is the standard method used to classify and describe cultivated varieties (cultivars) of Narcissus. It is widely used since the RHS is the international authority for the registration of such cultivars. For horticultural purposes, all Narcissus cultivars are split into 13 divisions, as described by Kington (1998), for the RHS, based partly upon flower form (shape and length of corona – the "trumpet" or "cup"), particularly the ratio of corona to length of perianth segments (tepals or "petals"), the number of flowers per stem, flowering period and partly upon the genetic background. Division 11 (Split-corona) with its two subdivisions was the most recent group to be described (1969). Division 13, which includes all the wild rather than cultivated daffodils, is the exception to this scheme.

This classification is a useful tool for planning planting. Most commercially available narcissi come from Divisions 1 (Trumpet), 2 (Large-cupped) and 8 (Tazetta). (Full article...)

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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 Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
... 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 in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... that the woodland garden, "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?

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