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Introduction

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

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A prospect of Vauxhall Gardens in 1751

Vauxhall Gardens /ˈvɒksɔːl/ is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames.

Originally known as New Spring Gardens, it is believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660, being mentioned by Samuel Pepys in 1662. From 1785 to 1859, the site was known as Vauxhall, a pleasure garden and one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century. The Gardens consisted of several acres of trees and shrubs with attractive walks. Initially entrance was free, with food and drink being sold to support the venture. (Full article...)

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Lilium

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A picture of a lily flower, Lilium Citronella. Photo taken at the Chanticleer Garden, where its species was identified.

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... that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... 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"?

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