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

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The gate piers and path leading to the front of the house.

Tintinhull Garden, located in Tintinhull, near Yeovil in the English county of Somerset, is a small (less than an acre) 20th century garden surrounding a 17th-century Grade I listed house. The property is in the ownership of the National Trust. It is visited by around 25,000 people per year.

The house started as a small farmhouse in 1630 but was enlarged into its current form in the 18th century. The house was the property of the Napper family for centuries. It was given to the National Trust in 1954. The garden is similar in style to that at Hidcote Manor Garden in Gloucestershire, with several garden rooms. It was originally laid out by Phyllis Reiss from 1933, and from 1979 to 1993 was in the charge of the garden writer and gardener Penelope Hobhouse. (Full article...)

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Maize

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Maize (/ˈmeɪz/) (Zea mays L. ssp. mays), known as corn in the Americas and Australia, is a cereal grain that was domesticated in Mesoamerica and then spread throughout the American continents. Maize spread to the rest of the world after the European colonization of the Americas in the late 15th century and early 16th century.

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