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Introduction

A gardener maintaining topiary in Tulcán, Ecuador

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, all the way to container gardens grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a variety of plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active participation in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry. (Full article...)

Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and non-food crops such as grass and ornamental trees and plants. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture, ornamental trees and lawns. (Full article...)

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Image 1Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 2Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (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 4Opening 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 5Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 6Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 7Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 8Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 9The 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 10The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 11Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 12Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 13Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 14A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 15Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 16Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 17White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 18The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 19
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 20Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 21Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 22Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 23Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 24Sigiriya gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 25Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 26Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 27Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 28Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 29Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 30White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 31Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 32Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 33Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 34Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 35Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 36Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 37Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 38Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 39Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 40Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 41Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 42Sofiero Castle garden (from History of gardening)
Image 43Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 44Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 45Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 46A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 47Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 48Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
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 50
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 51King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 52The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 53The 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 54The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 55Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 56Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 57Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 58Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 59Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 60Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 61Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 62Elswout (from History of gardening)

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Vermicomposting uses worms to decompose waste and make nutrient-rich "worm manure".

Vermicompost (vermi-compost) is the product of the decomposition process using various species of worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and other earthworms, to create a mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste, bedding materials, and vermicast. This process is called vermicomposting, with the rearing of worms for this purpose is called vermiculture.

Vermicast (also called worm castings, worm humus, worm poop, worm manure, or worm faeces) is the end-product of the breakdown of organic matter by earthworms. These excreta have been shown to contain reduced levels of contaminants and a higher saturation of nutrients than the organic materials before vermicomposting. (Full article...)

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Lantana camara

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Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial plants, native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa, and existing as an imported plant in numerous areas, especially in the Australian - Pacific region. The genus includes both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5 m to 2 m tall. Their common names are shrub verbenas or lantanas.

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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 in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... that although the bronze-leaved clerodendrum is an ornamental garden shrub, it sometimes becomes naturalised and may become an invasive species?
... that seeds from Asia allowed Dorothy Renton to create "the finest two acres of private garden" 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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