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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 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...)

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

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Water reservoir and pavilion of the Menara

The Menara Gardens (Arabic: حدائق المنارة) are a historic public garden and orchard in Marrakech, Morocco. They were established in the 12th century (circa 1157) by the Almohad Caliphate ruler Abd al-Mu'min. Along with the Agdal Gardens and the historic walled city of Marrakesh, the gardens have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. The gardens are laid out around a central water basin and reservoir, next to which is a pleasure pavilion dating in its current form from the 19th century. The reservoir and its pavilion, often framed in pictures against the background of the High Atlas Mountains to the south, are considered one of the iconic views and symbols of Marrakesh. (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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... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... that the Caucasian stonecrop frequently escapes, perhaps through birds or garden waste?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that "Go New York Go" has energized New York Knicks fans at Madison Square Garden since 1993?
... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that none of the actors in Poppy Garden, a film depicting a father and son's struggle for survival during the Colombian conflict, had previously acted in a film?

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