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The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times. Smaller gardens generally had being a kitchen garden as their first priority, as is still often the case.
Plant domestication is seen as the birth of agriculture. However, it is arguably proceeded by a very long history of gardening wild plants. While the 12,000 year-old date is the commonly accepted timeline describing plant domestication, there is now evidence from the Ohalo II hunter-gatherer site showing earlier signs of disturbing the soil and cultivation of pre-domesticated crop species. [8]
As a research center, the Archives of American Gardens houses around 80,000 photographic images and records about over 6,350 [1] gardens throughout the United States. Photographs and images date from the 1870s [1] to the present and showcase garden features such as fountains, sculptures, fences and gates, parterres, and garden structures.
Sheffield Park Garden, a landscape garden originally laid out in the 18th century by Capability Brown (from History of gardening) Image 9 Hawkwell Field with Gothic temple, Cobham monument and Palladian bridge at Stowe House (from History of gardening )
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In the Western history of gardening, from the 16th to early 19th centuries, a wilderness was a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden. [1] Though examples varied greatly, a typical English style was a number of geometrically-arranged compartments (often called "quarters") closed round by hedges ...
Until late in the nineteenth century the history of gardens was an assemblage of ‘gleanings’ from literary sources, a prime example being John Claudius Loudon, who included a ‘brief outline of the progress of the ancient style in England’ in his Encyclopædia of Gardening (1822) which attempted to define and date ancient garden features.
Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of gardening; Clean up and add to Category:Organic gardening. Probably a bit of trawling through the agriculture categories will be needed. Also many organic techniques are not well described, so new pages would be helpful.