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Introduction

A gardener maintaining topiary in Tulcán, Ecuador

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

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

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The Australian Inland Botanic Gardens (AIBG; previously: Sunraysia Oasis Botanical Gardens) is a botanical garden in Mourquong, in the Wentworth Shire of south-west New South Wales. The city of Mildura and the Murray River are nearby.

AIBG is the Southern Hemisphere's first semi-arid botanical gardens. Its specialization in arid-adapted species is unique among New South Wales and Victoria botanic gardens. (Full article...)

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Syringa vulgaris (Lilac or Common Lilac) is a species of Syringa in the olive family, Oleaceae, native to the Balkans in southeastern Europe, where it grows on rocky hills. Lilacs are a very common ornamental plant found in gardens and parks, because of the attractive, sweet smell of its flowers. Most garden plants are cultivars, with flowers varying from white to dark lilac; some have double flowers with the stamens replaced by extra petals.

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... that much of what we know of medieval gardens comes from illuminated manuscripts?
... 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?
... 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 a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that the Akinada Tobishima Kaido, an island-hopping road, was named after its resemblance to stepping stones in a garden?
... 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?

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