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

Selected article -

Sir Ninian Stephen, former AIBG patron.

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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Lantana camara

Credit: Alvesgaspar

Lantana is a genus of about 150 species of perennial plants, native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa, and existing as an imported plant in numerous areas, especially in the Australian - Pacific region. The genus includes both herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to 0.5 m to 2 m tall. Their common names are shrub verbenas or lantanas.

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Did you know -

... that Paul McCartney's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that a proposed footbridge connecting the Asian Garden Mall to another Vietnamese-American shopping center met opposition because it was deemed "too Chinese"?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York, was developed from the 1930s by a painter fascinated with an 8th-century Chinese artist, and a landscape architect from Harvard?
... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that Fannie Mahood Heath was nicknamed the "flower lady of North Dakota" for her garden that included over 450 different species of flowers, bushes, and trees?

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