GARDEN
: GARDENING
Gardening
is the practice of growing plants for their attractive flowers or foliage, and
vegetables or fruits for consumption. Gardening is a human activity used to
produce edible foods and use plants to beautify their local environmental conditions.
Its scale ranges: from fruit orchards, to long boulevards plantings with one
or more different types of shrubs, trees and herbaceous plants, to residential
yards including lawns and foundation plantings, to large or small containers
grown inside or outside. Gardening may often be very specific, with only one
type of plant grown, or involve a large number of different plants in mixed
plantings. It involves an active participatation in the growing of plants and
tends to be labor intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry.
Garden design is considered to be an art in most cultures, distinguished from
gardening, which generally means garden maintenance. In Japan, Samurai and Zen
monks were often required to build decorative gardens or practice related skills
like flower arrangement known as ikebana. In 18th century Europe, country estates
were refashioned by landscape gardeners into formal gardens or landscaped parklands,
such as at Versailles, France or Stowe, England. Today, landscape architects
and garden designers continue to produce artistically creative designs for private
garden spaces.(1)
source (1) wikipedia