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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 1Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 2The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 3Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 4Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 5Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 6The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 7Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 8The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 9Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 10Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 11Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 12Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 13A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 14Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 15A pear orchard near Faversham (from Agroforestry)
Image 16A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 17Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 18Water garden at Lake Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 19Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 20Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 21The 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 22Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 23Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 24Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 25The 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 26A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched sunflower plants (from Agroforestry)
Image 27Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 28Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 29Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 30Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 31Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 32Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 33The 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 34Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 35Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles (from History of gardening)
Image 36Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 37Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 38The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 39Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 40Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 41Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 42Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 43Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 44
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal
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Image 45A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 46The food forest atop CapitaSpring in Singapore. (from Agroforestry)
Image 47Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 48Opening 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 49Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya, 2nd–1st centuries BC (from History of gardening)
Image 50Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)

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The Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall was a large enclosed space in Westminster, London, that was originally a pleasure garden used by the late Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England. It was created under Henry VIII and was expanded and improved under his successors, but lost its royal patronage after the Palace of Whitehall was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1698.

From the start of the 18th century onwards, the garden went through major changes as it fell into neglect. It was painted in 1747 by Canaletto during a period of transition, as Westminster was being transformed by the construction of new buildings and roads. By the start of the 19th century, it had been redeveloped as the site for a row of townhouses, some of which were occupied by prime ministers seeking homes near the government buildings nearby. The last remnants of the Privy Garden were destroyed in 1938 during the construction of government offices on the site of the present Ministry of Defence Main Building. (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 Olive Garden and Chili's got in a ship war over Destiel?
... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
... that Ōtari-Wilton's Bush is the only public botanic garden in New Zealand that is entirely dedicated to native plants?
... that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
... that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
... that whistleblower and self-confessed ex-hitman Edgar Matobato fled the Philippines with a fake passport while posing as a gardener?

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