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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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The following are images from various gardening-related articles on Wikipedia.

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

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A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry, or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general public; wholesale nurseries, which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and commercial gardeners; and private nurseries, which supply the needs of institutions or private estates. Some will also work in plant breeding.

A "nurseryman" is a person who owns or works in a nursery. (Full article...)

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Lantana camara

Credit: Alvesgaspar

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 Mel Bartholomew, who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow"?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?

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