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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... )

Community gardens in the United States benefit both gardeners and society at large. Community gardens provide fresh produce to gardeners and their friends and neighbors. They provide a place of connection to nature and to other people. In a wider sense, community gardens provide green space, a habitat for insects and animals, sites for gardening education, and beautification of the local area. Community gardens provide access to land to those who otherwise could not have a garden, such as apartment-dwellers, the elderly, and the homeless . Many gardens resemble European allotment gardens, with plots or boxes where individuals and families can grow vegetables and flowers, including a number which began as victory gardens during World War II . Other gardens are worked as community farms with no individual plots at all, similar to urban farms . ( Full article... )

• ... that the Shakespeare garden in Wessington Springs, South Dakota , was the first of its kind in the state?
• ... that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
• ... that actress Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
• ... that former New Jersey first lady Lucinda Florio restored the Italianate gardens at Drumthwacket ?
• ... that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive ?
• ... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
• ... that American root doctor Valerie Boles was the inspiration for the character Minerva in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its film adaptation?
• ... that a "bat ensnared by a plant" was discovered in the garden of the Palestine Museum of Natural History ?

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