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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 science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and more controlled scale than agronomy. 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 of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

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Image 1Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 2Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 3Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 4Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 5A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
Image 6Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 7The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 8Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 9Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 10Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 11Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 12Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 13Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 14
The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 15Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 16Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 17Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 18Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 19Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 20The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 21Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 22Opening 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 23Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 24Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 25The 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 26The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 27A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 28Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 29Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 30A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 31Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 32Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 33Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 34Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 35Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 36The 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 37The 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 38The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 39Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 40Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 41Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 42White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 43Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 44Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 45Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 46Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 47Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 48Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 49Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 50The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)
Image 51Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
Image 52Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 53Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 54Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 55Reflection of the Bagh-e Narenjestan (orange garden) and the Khaneh Ghavam (Ghavam house) at Shiraz, Iran (Persian garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 56Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 57Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 58Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 59Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 60Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 61Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 62Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 63Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 64Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 65A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 66Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 67Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 68King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 69The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 70Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 71White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 72Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 73Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 74Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 75Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 76
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 77Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 78Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)

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The forerunner of the Working For Gardeners Association was created in 1899. It has had various names including the Women's Farm and Garden Society (WFGS) and the Women's Farm and Garden Union (WFGU). Its original objective was to improve the employment opportunities for women working on the land. During the First World War, it created the Women's National Land Service Corps (WNLSC) in 1916 and recruited 2,000 volunteers. At the WNLSC's suggestion, the government created the Women's Land Army. In 1920, the WFGU was concerned that after the war, women were not being offered the help that men were. It created a cooperative set of small holdings for women in Surrey. During the Second World War, it organised training. The charity organised training courses for both women and men in 2020 under its new working name of the Working For Gardeners Association. (Full article...)

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kavindraCherry Blossom or Sakura (Japanese kanji: 桜 or 櫻; katakana: サクラ; hiragana: さくら) is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Cherry fruit (known as sakuranbo) comes from a different species of tree. Sakura is also a given name. The word "sakura" becomes "zakura", when used in a compound word such as "shidarezakura".

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... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that in 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that Tucker Hall and Ewell Hall sit on either side of the Sunken Garden on the College of William & Mary's campus?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?

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