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Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, or ornamental purposes 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 (from Latin: horti + culture) is the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. Horticulture is distinct from conventional plant agriculture through its emphasis on the artistic and landscaped expressions of plant cultivation, in addition to various crops being grown in scientifically informed controlled environments such as greenhouse and intensive outdoor systems unlike industrial large-scale agronomic systems and field mechanization. There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: 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 on the part of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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Image 1Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 2Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 3A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 4Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 5Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 6Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 7Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 8Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 9A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched sunflower plants (from Agroforestry)
Image 10Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 11Opening 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 12Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 13Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 14Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 15Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 16Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 17Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 18The 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 19Water garden at Lake Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 20White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there (from History of gardening)
Image 21Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 22A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 23Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 24Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 25A pear orchard near Faversham (from Agroforestry)
Image 26Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 27Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 28The 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 29Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 30Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 31Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 32Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 33Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 34Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 35The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 36Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal
(from History of gardening)
Image 38Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 39Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 40Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 41White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 42Robert Hart, forest gardening 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 44Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 45Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 46Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 47Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 48Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 49Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 50Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)

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The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times. Smaller gardens generally had been a kitchen garden as their first priority, as is still often the case.

The broad traditions that have dominated gardening since ancient times include those of the Ancient Near East, which became the Islamic garden, the Mediterranean, which produced the Roman garden, hugely influencing later European gardening, and the Chinese garden and its development on the Japanese garden. While the basic gardening techniques were fairly well understood by trial and error from early on, the plants available in a particular location have changed enormously, especially in recent centuries. Many new groups of plants have been introduced from other parts of the world, and the ornamental plants now used are mostly cultivars bred to improve qualities such as colour, length of flowering, size and hardiness. (Full article...)

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Tempranillo

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The vigorous young growth of the Tempranillo grape vine vitis vinifera in a typical vineyard in the Catalan Penedès region. One of the most ancient wine regions in Europe, el Penedès is home to some of the most innovative of the so-called Old World growers.

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... that Saint Sadalberga used telepathy to "order lettuce from her gardener", according to a story from her vita?
... that in 2013 a barrack from the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp was discovered in a private garden, still bearing detainees' graffiti from 1942?
... that the orange stonecrop is a successful garden escapee?
... that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
... that the Oregon Garden obtained the Gordon House because of a misunderstanding?
... that Michael Gardener preached a sermon in Inuktitut even though he did not yet understand the language?
... that Robert Baker Park in Baltimore was named after Robert Lewis Baker, whose personal garden was recreated at the city's Flower and Garden Show the year after his death?
... that the small flowers that give Aquilegia parviflora its name make it unpopular with gardeners?

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