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

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The city of Portland, Oregon is ideal for growing roses outdoors due to its location within the marine west coast climate region, its warm, dry summers and rainy but mild winters, and its heavy clay soils. Portland has been known as the City of Roses, or Rose City, since 1888, after Madame Caroline Testout, a large pink variety of hybrid tea rose bred in France, was introduced to the city. Thousands of rose bushes were planted, eventually lining 200 miles (320 km) of Portland's streets in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in 1905.

The Rose City Park neighborhood in northeast Portland was formed in 1907, the same year of the first annual Portland Rose Festival. During World War I, nursery owners in Portland began planning a large rose garden to protect European rose species from the war. The garden was established in Washington Park as the International Rose Test Garden in 1917. Today, the Portland Rose Festival takes place each June with a carnival, parades, and navy ships docked along the Tom McCall Waterfront Park to promote the city. The International Rose Test Garden is currently one of the oldest public rose test gardens in the United States, covering 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) with over 8,000 rose plants, and more than 550 different species. In 2003, Portland adopted the "City of Roses" as its official nickname. (Full article...)

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

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... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... that a cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species Gyalectidium yahriae was named after Rebecca Yahr of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
... 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 Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History?
... 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?

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