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Old 22-04-2009, 08:50 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Billy wrote:

"We must cultivate our garden."

Garden a definition wade down to the many stars.

Bill

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A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the
display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.
The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most
common form is known as a residential garden. Western gardens are almost
universally based around plants. Zoos, which display wild animals in
simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological
gardens.[1][2]
See traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use
plants such as parsley. Xeriscape gardens use local native plants that
do not require irrigation or extensive use of other resources while
still providing the benefits of a garden environment. Gardens may
exhibit structural enhancements, sometimes called follies, including
water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish),
waterfalls or creeks, dry creek beds, statuary, arbors, trellises and
more.
Some gardens are for ornamental purposes only, while some gardens also
produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes intermixed
with the ornamental plants. Food-producing gardens are distinguished
from farms by their smaller scale, more labor-intensive methods, and
their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce for sale).
Gardening is the activity of growing and maintaining the garden. This
work is done by an amateur or professional gardener.

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*****A gardener might also work in a non-garden setting, such as a
park, a roadside embankment, or other public space.******
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Landscape architecture is a related professional activity with
landscape architects tending to specialise in design for public and
corporate clients.
The term "garden" in British English refers to an enclosed area of land,
usually adjoining a building.[3] This would be referred to as a yard in
American English.

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- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)