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

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Queens Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 43-50 Main Street in Flushing, Queens, New York City. The 39-acre (16 ha) site features rose, bee, herb, wedding, and perennial gardens; an arboretum; an art gallery; and a LEED-certified Visitor & Administration Building. Queens Botanical Garden is located on property owned by the City of New York, and is funded from several public and private sources. It is operated by Queens Botanical Garden Society, Inc.

Queens Botanical Garden was created as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair and was originally located in nearby Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. It moved to its current location, a landfilled area east of Flushing Meadows Park, in 1963 in preparation for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Since then, the Queens Botanical Garden has continued to expand, with programming targeted at residents of surrounding community. In 2001, the Queens Botanical Garden Society published a master plan for a renovation of the garden, centered around the garden's location above the underground Kissena Creek. Several improvements were made over the following years, including the construction of a new environmentally friendly parking lot and administration building. (Full article...)

Lantana camara

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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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... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
... that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
... 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 former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket?
... that Nizza in central Frankfurt is one of the largest gardens of Mediterranean plants north of the Alps, thanks to its very warm microclimate?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that the Cranford Rose Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden was cited as having 1,200 varieties of roses?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?

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