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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 1Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 2Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 3Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 4Water garden at Lake Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 5Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 6Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 7Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 8Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
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 10Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya, 2nd–1st centuries BC (from History of gardening)
Image 11A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 12Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 13Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 14A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 15Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 16Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 17Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 18Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 19Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles (from History of gardening)
Image 20Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 21Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 22A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched sunflower plants (from Agroforestry)
Image 23White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 24Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 25Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka (from History of gardening)
Image 26King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 27Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 28Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 29Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 30Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort (from History of gardening)
Image 31Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 32The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 33Opening 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 34The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 35White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there (from History of gardening)
Image 36Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 37Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire. (from Agroforestry)
Image 38
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal
(from History of gardening)
Image 39Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 40Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 41Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 42Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 43Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 44Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 45Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 46Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 47A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 48Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 49Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 50Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)

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A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, or carefully controlled seed production. Most cultivars arise from deliberate human manipulation, but some originate from wild plants that have distinctive characteristics. Cultivar names are chosen according to rules of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP), and not all cultivated plants qualify as cultivars. Horticulturists generally believe the word cultivar was coined as a term meaning "cultivated variety".

Popular ornamental plants like roses, camellias, daffodils, rhododendrons, and azaleas are commonly cultivars produced by breeding and selection or as sports, for floral colour or size, plant form, or other desirable characteristics. Similarly, the world's agricultural food crops are almost exclusively cultivars that have been selected for characters such as improved yield, flavour, and resistance to disease. Since the advent of genetic engineering in the 1970s and the rise of its application in crop breeding in the 1980s, very few wild plants are used as commercial food sources. Trees used in forestry are also special selections grown for their enhanced quality and yield of timber, for example American timber company Weyerhaeuser is the leading grower of genetically modified Douglas-fir trees, one of the most commonly harvested trees. (Full article...)

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Center pivot irrigation

Credit: Howcheng, NASA

Satellite image of circular crop fields, characteristic of center pivot irrigation, in Haskell County, Kansas in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. U.S. Route 56 crosses the scene, passing the cities of Sublette (lower left) and Copeland (upper right).

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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 controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery?
... that QuizKnock created puzzle games for the Imperial Palace East Garden?
... that Saint Sadalberga used telepathy to "order lettuce from her gardener", according to a story from her vita?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... that tea-garden labour leader Prem Oraon lost his right leg in 1970 during a protest against a factory closure?
... that bored soldiers during the siege of Ak-Mechet began stealing watermelons from gardens outside the enemy fortress?
... that Michael Gardener preached a sermon in Inuktitut even though he did not yet understand the language?

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