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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.

Gardening portal

Shortcuts: WP:H&G WP:WPHORT WP:WPGARDEN

The current WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening Collaborations are

City farm
Harvest festival
Herb farm
History of gardening
Thelocactus
The next collaborations will be posted on March 1, 2012. (Contribute here)

Pieskowa Skała, Poland – Garden at its renaissance castle

Welcome to WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening. Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Horticulture and Gardening. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

[edit] Scope

The Horticulture and Gardening projects aims to enrich and organize wiki content for the topics of horticulture and gardening. Subjects include gardens, horticultural practices, plants, animals and pathogens that affect plants and gardens, soil, and so on. Currently, many of the category pages related to this field are in serious disarray.

[edit] Goals

To organize and clean up the related categories, including gardening, horticulture, compost, organic gardening, etc.
To improve pages related to this project.
To add horticultural information to plant articles, including growing conditions, horticultural techniques (as wiki links), pest and disease issues, cultivars, etc.

[edit] Structure

Formats for articles covered by this project should follow those established in each category. However, some changes might be needed in some of the articles, such as adding culture, pest and disease, hardiness, etc. to plant articles.

[edit] Parentage

Parent projects include:

[edit] Related projects

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Project tasks

Clean up and better organize this page.
Work on disambiguation for the genus Chrysanthemum, members and former members of which appear under many names due to recent reclassifications.
Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of gardening
Clean up and add to Category:Organic gardening. Probably a bit of trawling through the agriculture categories will be needed. Also many organic techniques are not well described, so new pages would be helpful.
Pests and Diseases of Garden Plants: Linked lists of particular pests and diseases on the plant articles may be helpful. Perhaps use "Insects and Mites that Feed on this Plant" as the heading. Reciprocally, lists of plant hosts on articles about pests and diseases.
Regional Lists: Regional lists of weeds, garden plants (perhaps by hardiness zones), public gardens, etc. may be useful to those who do garden research on wiki.
Work to improve the horticulture stubs.

[edit] Article tasks

This list is transcluded from the tasks list page. To edit the list, click here

Here are some tasks you can do:

Cleanup: History of gardening • Urban agriculture
Expand: City farm • Herb farm • Thelocactus
Verify: Herbaceous plant • Hobby farm • Intercropping • Orchard • Ornamental plant • University of Santo Tomas' parks and gardens • Urban agriculture
Other: Add {{portal|Gardening}} to gardening-related articles • Consider joining WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to join this project by adding your name to this list by clicking on the 'Add your name here' link below.
You are also encouraged to participate in any of area of this project that might interest you. Afterward, feel free to place the project's userbox on your user page (below in the userboxes section).

Add your name Here

[edit] Active members

Northamerica1000 (talk) 01:14, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Andyvancleve (talk · contribs) espalier, historical roses, New York Native azaleas, New York Native Blueberry bushes, permaculture, Professional Retail Nursery Grower,
Buaidh (talk · contribs) rose culture, pathology of woody plants, sustainable gardening
Carbonrodney (talk · contribs)
Casliber (talk · contribs) - am trying to expand a bit on horticulture of Australian plants under their individual headings.
Cerebellum (talk · contribs) - Organic gardening, permaculture
ChickenWings (talk · contribs) - Amateur gardener, obsessive reader of garden books.
Confusedlittlepanda (talk · contribs) - Professional gardener in Banff, will work on species native to the park.
Daemonic Kangaroo (talk · contribs) - I am trying to create articles about the plant hunters employed by Veitch Nurseries of Chelsea, London as well as some of the plants they introduced
Doc Tropics (talk · contribs) - I'll do what I can :)
Doug (talk · contribs) - joined 20 October 2007 - Coordination between this project and WikiProject Farm
Duff (talk · contribs) - joined 19 June 2010 - Many of my edits are around plants. I am a nursery and dirt farmer, specializing in trees, with a big library.
First Light (talk · contribs)
HelloMojo (talk · contribs) - I have a Diploma of Horticulture, I will help too, but might do more damage than good! lol
JBsupreme (talk · contribs)
MegaMom (talk · contribs) - avid gardener!
Meng.benjamin (talk · contribs) - I am SARE certified in Sustainable Agriculture. Im In!
NoahElhardt (talk · contribs) (Most of my edits are plant related already anyway...)
Payxystaxna (talk · contribs) - Interest in Southern African plants of horticultural value as well as any geophytes. Propagation of bulbs and succulents.
Quercusrobur (talk · contribs) (count me in, although I'm not sure how much and persistence I'll be able to dedicate to this project...)
SB_Johnny (talk · contribs)
SilkTork (talk · contribs)
Slowart (talk · contribs) Botany, arboriculture, living trees used as art.
Strobilus (talk · contribs) - Plant science student in Canada.
Tryptofish (talk · contribs)
Tum_Dushul (talk · contribs)
Tyciol (talk · contribs) - Biology student, gardener
Infamouse (talk · contribs) - Hobby farmer, gleaner

There is also a separate list of inactive members that includes those contributors who have not edited for at least six months. If you have returned after a long absence and can't find your name above, it may have been moved there; please feel free to move it back.

[edit] Inactive members

This list includes those members of the project who have not edited for at least six months; it is manually updated on a periodic basis. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active members section upon your return.

Lynnathon (talk · contribs) - I am a member of WikiProject Plants and will help where I can.
Plantscience (talk · contribs) - BS horticulture, MS plant science. Willing to help in all aspects of project.

[edit] Articles

Villandry Jardins style renaissance garden

Main articles

[edit] Article collaborations of the Month

See Horticulture and Gardening Collaborations of the Month for articles to work together and improve.

[edit] New articles

Wikipedia:WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening/New articles
Slug tape - created 25 May 2008

[edit] Article alerts

Articles for deletion

17 Dec 2011 – Henry Schmieder Arboretum (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by GrapedApe (t · c) was closed as keep by Michig (t · c) on 24 Dec 2011; see discussion (5 participants)

[edit] Note - deletion ?

Note: Category:Ornamental trees and Category:Ornamental plants have been nominated by an editor for deletion, one can vote—comment on page "Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 1" accessed from link on two cat. pages.

[edit] Statistics

Horticulture and gardening articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			3	2			5
GA	1	1	3	3			8
B	1	7	5	4		1	18
C	1	11	18	13		1	44
Start	6	25	62	104		29	226
Stub	1	3	14	96		94	208
List			2	5	11		18
Category					30		30
Disambig					1		1
File					3		3
Portal					33		33
Project					7		7
Template					11		11
NA				1	5		6
Assessed	10	47	107	228	101	125	618
Unassessed						38	38
Total	10	47	107	228	101	163	656

[edit] Templates needing work

{{Hortibox}}
Hortibox

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.