Gardening

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, and to container gardens grown inside or outsi
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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Claude Monet
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
Claude Monet

Thomas Jefferson
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Thomas Jefferson, The Quotable Jefferson

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