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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 art and science of growing plants. This definition is seen in its etymology, which is derived from the Latin words hortus, which means "garden" and cultura which means "to cultivate". There are various divisions of horticulture because plants are grown for a variety of purposes. These divisions include, but are not limited to: gardening, plant production/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 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 2Contemporary water feature (from Garden design)
Image 3Garden chairs in Rosenneuheitengarten Beutig in Baden-Baden, Germany (from Garden design)
Image 4The seven layers of the forest garden (from Agroforestry)
Image 5The 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 6Moata Lake and Saffron Garden, exhibit ancient Indian garden styles. (from History of gardening)
Image 7Inspired by Islamic/Moorish gardens, the Patio de la Acequia (Courtyard of the Canal), Generalife, Granada, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 8Contemporary garden in Colchester, United Kingdom (from History of gardening)
Image 9White garden at Hidcote Manor Garden, one of several garden rooms there. (from History of gardening)
Image 10Garden lighting in Kampala, Uganda (from Garden design)
Image 11Elswout (from History of gardening)
Image 12Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening)
Image 13Villa d'Este (from History of gardening)
Image 14Robert Hart's forest garden in Shropshire (from Agroforestry)
Image 15Frogner Park (from History of gardening)
Image 16Shade-grown coffee (Coffea arabica) in Sierra Norte of Puebla (from Agroforestry)
Image 17The flower of an Inga tree. (from Agroforestry)
Image 18Curved garden paths are a common form of hardscaping (from Garden design)
Image 19Jade Belt Bridge, a moon bridge at the Summer Palace, Beijing (from History of gardening)
Image 20Stepping stones in Kiyosumi Garden, in Fukagawa, Tokyo (from History of gardening)
Image 21Mughal-style courtyard garden at Agra Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 22Hortus conclusus depicted by the Upper Rhenish Master (from History of gardening)
Image 23Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso (from Agroforestry)
Image 24Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, depicting a water way (from History of gardening)
Image 25Sōraku-en gardens (Japanese garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 26Water garden at Lake Palace. (from History of gardening)
Image 27Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (from History of gardening)
Image 28Ryoan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, the most famous example of a Zen rock garden (from List of garden types)
Image 29Hindu Rajput-style courtyard garden at Amer Fort. (from History of gardening)
Image 30A plan of a formal garden for a country estate in Wales, 1765 (from Garden design)
Image 31Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France (from Agroforestry)
Image 32Young man waters a newly planted tree in Mali (2010) (from Agroforestry)
Image 33Contemporary garden (from Garden design)
Image 34Colour plate from Some English Gardens (1904) by Gertrude Jekyll. (from Garden writing)
Image 35Gardeners gardening at Jetavana, Bodh Gaya 2nd–1st BC (from History of gardening)
Image 36A rock garden in Seiganji, Maibara, Shiga prefecture, Japan (from Garden design)
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The Mughal and English-style garden leading to the Taj Mahal.
(from History of gardening)
Image 38Katsura Imperial Villa (from History of gardening)
Image 39Oranienbaum, the Grand Menshikov Palace gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 40
The Renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry.
(from History of gardening)
Image 41Kuojtakiloyan (from Agroforestry)
Image 42Toyohiko Kagawa, forest farming pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 43Łazienki Park (from History of gardening)
Image 44Roses, clematis, a thatched roof: a cottage garden in Brittany (from Garden design)
Image 45Sigirya gardens in Sri Lanka. (from History of gardening)
Image 46Engraving from a 1774 edition of La pratique du jardinage, a treatise on gardening by Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville. (from Garden writing)
Image 47Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil (from History of gardening)
Image 48Nishat Bagh, terrace garden at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (Mughal Gardens) (from List of garden types)
Image 49Contour planting integrated with animal grazing on Taylor's Run farm, Australia (from Agroforestry)
Image 50Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London (from List of garden types)
Image 51White Garden at Kensington Palace, a Dutch garden planted as a Color garden (from List of garden types)
Image 52King Bimbisara of Magadha visits the Bamboo Garden (Venuvana) in Rajagriha; artwork from Sanchi. (from History of gardening)
Image 53A temperate Syntropic system in Dordogne France, including heavily mulched Sunflower plants. (from Agroforestry)
Image 54Roof garden on the top deck of a multi-storey car park, Edgedale Neighbourhood, Punggol, Singapore (from List of garden types)
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 56The Shalamar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan (from Garden design)
Image 57Opening 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 58Scale model of the Fallingwater building, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh (from History of gardening)
Image 59Park in Kuskovo (from History of gardening)
Image 60Real Alcázar de Sevilla (from History of gardening)
Image 61Giverny (from History of gardening)
Image 62Andalusian Patio of Córdoba, Spain (from Garden design)
Image 63A riparian buffer bordering a river in Iowa (from Agroforestry)
Image 64Jardín del Generalife de Granada (Spanish garden) (from List of garden types)
Image 65Alley cropping corn fields between rows of walnut trees (from Agroforestry)
Image 66Triton Lake at Powerscourt Gardens (from History of gardening)
Image 67Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening)
Image 68The 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 69Alignment of several compost piles on a composting facility in France (from Garden design)
Image 70Labyrinth maze of Barvaux, Durbuy, Belgium (from List of garden types)
Image 71The Muskau Park (from History of gardening)
Image 72Robert Hart, forest gardening pioneer (from Agroforestry)
Image 73Parc de Bagatelle, a rose garden in Paris (from List of garden types)
Image 74Silvopasture over the years (Australia) (from Agroforestry)
Image 75Autumn colours at Stourhead, an English landscape garden (from List of garden types)
Image 76The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a sculpture garden in Dumfriesshire, Scotland (from List of garden types)
Image 77Sofiero Palace garden (from History of gardening)
Image 78The park at Drottningholm Palace (from History of gardening)

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Terrestrial: buttercup

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspərmiː/). The term 'angiosperm' is derived from the Greek words ἀγγεῖον / angeion ('container, vessel') and σπέρμα / sperma ('seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed within a fruit. The group was formerly called Magnoliophyta.

Angiosperms are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants. Angiosperms are distinguished from the other major seed plant clade, the gymnosperms, by having flowers, xylem consisting of vessel elements instead of tracheids, endosperm within their seeds, and fruits that completely envelop the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. In the Cretaceous, angiosperms diversified explosively, becoming the dominant group of plants across the planet. (Full article...)

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Japanese gardens

Credit: Jjron

Panoramic view from the Symbolic Mountain Lookout at the Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW, Australia, 22 September, 2006. Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien), that is, gardens in the traditional Japanese style, can be found at private homes, in neighborhood or city parks, and at historical landmarks, such as Buddhist temples and old castles. Some of the Japanese gardens most famous in the West, and within Japan as well, are dry gardens or rock gardens, known as karesansui.

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... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... 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?

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