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

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Aerial view in 2009: "The most famous twentieth century garden in England"

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at Sissinghurst in the Weald of Kent in England, was created by Vita Sackville-West, poet and writer, and her husband Harold Nicolson, author and diplomat. It is among the most famous gardens in England and is designated Grade I on Historic England's register of historic parks and gardens. It was bought by Sackville-West in 1930, and over the next thirty years, working with, and later succeeded by, a series of notable head gardeners, she and Nicolson transformed a farmstead of "squalor and slovenly disorder" into one of the world's most influential gardens. Following Sackville-West's death in 1962, the estate was donated to the National Trust. It was ranked 42nd on the list of the Trust's most-visited sites in the 2021–2022 season, with over 150,000 visitors.

The gardens contain an internationally respected plant collection, particularly the assemblage of old garden roses. The writer Anne Scott-James considered the roses at Sissinghurst to be "one of the finest collections in the world". A number of plants propagated in the gardens bear names related to people connected with Sissinghurst or the name of the garden itself. The garden design is based on axial walks that open onto enclosed gardens, termed "garden rooms", one of the earliest examples of this gardening style. Among the individual "garden rooms", the White Garden has been particularly influential, with the horticulturalist Tony Lord describing it as "the most ambitious ... of its time, the most entrancing of its type." (Full article...)

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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 actress Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that American root doctor Valerie Boles was the inspiration for the character Minerva in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its film adaptation?
... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, was the first of its kind in the state?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?

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