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

Selected article -

Oregon Garden

The Oregon Garden is an 80-acre (32 ha) botanical garden and tourist attraction in Silverton, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1999, it is home to over 20 gardens including the Rose Garden, Children's Garden and Silverton Market Garden. It is open 365 days a year and hosts both public and private events. The land is also home to the Gordon House, Oregon's only Frank Lloyd Wright home, and The Oregon Garden Resort. (Full article...)

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Lilium Citronella

Lilium

Credit: Ram-Man

A picture of a lily flower, Lilium Citronella. Photo taken at the Chanticleer Garden, where its species was identified.

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... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... that a cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... 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 the woodland garden, "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Parimal Garden in Ahmedabad has scrap-metal monkeys?
... that seeds from Asia allowed Dorothy Renton to create "the finest two acres of private garden" in Scotland?

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