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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 1Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 2A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 3The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 4Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 5Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 6Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 7Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 8Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 9Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 10Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 11Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 12Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 13White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 14Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 15Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 16Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 17White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 18Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 19Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 20Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 21Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 22Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 23Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 24
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 25The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 26Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 27Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 28Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 29Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 30The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 31
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 32Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 33Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 34Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 35Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 36Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 37King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 38Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 39Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 40Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 41Opening 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 42Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 43The 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 44Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 45A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 46Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 47The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 48The 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 49Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 50Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 51Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 52Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 53Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 54Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 55Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 56Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 57Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 58The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 59Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 60Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 61Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 62A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 63The 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 64Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 65Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 66Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 67Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 68Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 69Sigiriya in Sri Lanka is one of the oldest landscape gardens in the world. (from History of gardening)
Image 70The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 71Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 72Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 73Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 74Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 75A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 76Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 77Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 78Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 79Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)

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Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies. As a polyculture system, an agroforestry system can produce timber and wood products, fruits, nuts, other edible plant products, edible mushrooms, medicinal plants, ornamental plants, animals and animal products, and other products from both domesticated and wild species.

Agroforestry can be practiced for economic, environmental, and social benefits, and can be part of sustainable agriculture. Apart from production, benefits from agroforestry include improved farm productivity, healthier environments, reduction of risk for farmers, beauty and aesthetics, increased farm profits, reduced soil erosion, creating wildlife habitat, less pollution, managing animal waste, increased biodiversity, improved soil structure, and carbon sequestration. (Full article...)

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... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... 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 the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?

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