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Introduction

A gardener maintaining topiary in Tulcán, Ecuador

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.

Home gardening is the practice of cultivating vegetables, fruits, herbs, and ornamental plants within residential spaces for personal use. It contributes to food security, biodiversity, environmental sustainability, and physical well-being.(more info) (Full article...)

Horticulture (from Latin: horti + culture) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and 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 on the part of the horticulturist. (Full article...)

General images -

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

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

Selected article -

Community gardens in the United States benefit both gardeners and society at large. Community gardens provide fresh produce to gardeners and their friends and neighbors. They provide a place of connection to nature and to other people. In a wider sense, community gardens provide green space, a habitat for insects and animals, sites for gardening education, and beautification of the local area. Community gardens provide access to land to those who otherwise could not have a garden, such as apartment-dwellers, the elderly, and the homeless. Many gardens resemble European allotment gardens, with plots or boxes where individuals and families can grow vegetables and flowers, including a number which began as victory gardens during World War II. Other gardens are worked as community farms with no individual plots at all, similar to urban farms. (Full article...)

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Tempranillo

Credit: Mick Stephenson

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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Did you know -

... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that after losing a Shanghai mansion to the Empire of Japan in World War II, British hotelier Victor Sassoon abandoned repossession plans following a communist takeover?
... 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?

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