Gardening By The Book
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, leaf, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as List of root vegetables, root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for Medicine, medicinal or Cosmetics, 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 Agriculture, farming or forestry. History Ancient times Forest gardening, a fore ...
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