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Introduction

A gardener maintaining topiary in Tulcán, Ecuador

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, all the way to container gardens grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a variety of plants in mixed plantings. It involves active participation in the growing of plants and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry. (Full article...)

Horticulture is the cultivation of plants in gardens or greenhouses, as opposed to the field-scale production of crops characteristic of agriculture. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and non-food crops such as grass and ornamental trees and plants. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture, ornamental trees and lawns. (Full article...)

General images -

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

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

Selected article -

Alfred D. Robinson (1866–1942) and his wife Marion James Robinson (1873–1919) were wealthy residents of San Diego, California known for their impact on gardening and the cultivation of flowers, particularly begonias. Their extensive home garden was used to propagate and develop more than 100 new varieties of ornamental flowers and was later opened to the public as Rosecroft Begonia Gardens. Rosecroft was the name of their estate in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego. The residence, built for them in 1912, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (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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... 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 a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Schlosspark Biebrich, the garden at a former residence of the Duchy of Nassau on the Rhine, is the venue of the Internationales Pfingstturnier Wiesbaden?
... that Mel Bartholomew, who developed the time-saving square foot gardening method, said that he gardened "with a salad bowl in mind, not a wheelbarrow"?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred?
... that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?

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