Growing plants for pleasure and use around the home: flowers, vegetables, herbs, lawns and trees. The most widely practiced of all hobbies, gardening differs from farming in its scale and its motive, done for beauty, food and the work itself rather than for market, and every culture has built its own tradition of it, from the cottage garden to the Japanese garden. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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OriginOrnamental gardening for pleasure is attested across the ancient world, from Egyptian tomb paintings of pleasure gardens onward 1 Connections
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An American nonprofit membership organization devoted to horticulture and gardening education, founded 1922.
Beekeeping and gardening are commonly practiced together for pollination and garden health.
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Source Native Plants (National Audubon Society)
Butterfly gardening, planting to attract and support butterflies, is a well-documented link between the two pursuits.
Gardening, especially cottage-style flower and kitchen gardening, is one of the central practices associated with the Cottagecore aesthetic.
A nonprofit of about 200 local garden clubs and roughly 18,000 members promoting gardening across the United States.
Jekyll is remembered as a premier influence on garden design, especially the herbaceous border and planting for colour.
Source Gertrude Jekyll (Wikipedia)
Source Garden Railway (Wikipedia)
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Source Royal Horticultural Society (Wikipedia)
The Cottage Garden Movement is a historical style and philosophy within the gardening hobby, championed by figures such as Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson.
Source Chelsea Flower Show (Wikipedia)
Victory gardens applied ordinary home gardening skill to wartime food production
Source Victory Garden (Wikipedia)
Robinson championed the wild, natural planting style against formal Victorian bedding; Jekyll herself credited him with putting hardy-plant gardening within easy reach of ordinary gardeners.
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Source Gertrude Jekyll (Wikipedia)
Source William Robinson (Wikipedia)
Tools Used
Source Averruncator (Wikipedia)
Seeder is used in Gardening.
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1. Gardening (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIntroduction, first sentence
Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, or ornamental purposes within a designated space.
History section, ancient times paragraph
Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings from the New Kingdom (around 1500 BC) provide some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design
Introduction, benefits sentence
People often partake in gardening for its therapeutic, health, educational, cultural, philosophical, environmental, and religious benefits.
Benefits section, pollinators sentence
Gardening can also support good numbers and a wide range of pollinators, but worryingly bees and other pollinators are in decline.
Types section, garden design themes sentence
Garden design can include different themes such as perennial, butterfly, wildlife, Japanese, water, tropical, or shade gardens.
Cottage gardens section, Black Death theory sentence
One theory is that they arose out of the Black Death of the 1340s, when the death of so many laborers made land available for small cottages with personal gardens.
Types section, community gardening sentence
Community gardening is a social activity in which an area of land is gardened by a group of people, providing access to fresh produce, herbs, flowers and plants as well as access to satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.
The Middle Ages section, monastic gardens sentence
Monasteries carried on a tradition of garden design and intense horticultural techniques during the medieval period in Europe.
Types section, container gardening sentence
Container gardening is concerned with growing plants in any type of container, either indoors or outdoors.
Benefits section, self-esteem and stress sentence
Specifically, gardening is thought to increase self-esteem and reduce stress.
As art section, Renaissance gardens sentence
Gardens during the Renaissance were adorned with sculptures, topiary and fountains.
View the Source Gertrude Jekyll (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_JekyllQuote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Jekyll
a premier influence in garden design
William Robinson (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_(gardener)
It is mainly owing to his unremitting labours that a clear knowledge of the world of hardy-plant beauty is now placed within easy reach of all who care to acquire it
- Associated With: Publication of The Wild Garden
- Has Figure: William Robinson
View the Source About us (Royal Horticultural Society)
About us section, opening sentence
We are the UK's gardening charity, helping people and plants to grow.
About us section, founding and community sentence
Founded over 200 years ago, we're a diverse community of gardeners, supporters, volunteers, visitors, students and scientists
View the SourceAbout Us (American Horticultural Society)
ABOUT US section, founding sentence
Founded in 1922, the American Horticultural Society is one of the oldest and most respected national horticultural nonprofit organizations in North America.
OUR MISSION section, mission sentence
To inspire a culture of gardening and horticultural practices that creates and sustains healthy, beautiful communities and a livable planet.
View the SourceVictory Garden (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Victory Garden, Introduction sectionView the Source Averruncator (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationTools Used: Averruncator, Description sectionQuote, Tools Used: Averruncator, Description section
An averruncator has a compound blade attached to a handle between five and eight feet long. The blades are closed with a rope and pulley, and they are opened with a spring.
Garden Railway (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Model Railroading, Introduction, first sentenceQuote, Associated With: Model Railroading, Introduction, first sentence
A garden railway or garden railroad is a model railway set up outdoors in a garden.
Native Plants (National Audubon Society)
Associated With: Birdwatching, Native Plants, opening sentence
Native plants help support our birds throughout the year.
Associated With: Birdwatching, Why Native Plants Are Better for Birds and People section, first sentence
Bird-friendly landscaping provides food, saves water, and fights climate change.
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