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  2. Japanese garden - Wikipedia

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    Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest a natural landscape, and to express the ...

  3. Pollinator garden - Wikipedia

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    Pollinator garden. A pollinator garden is a type of garden designed with the intent of growing specific nectar and pollen -producing plants, in a way that attracts pollinating insects known as pollinators. [1] Pollinators aid in the production of one out of every three bites of food consumed by humans, and pollinator gardens are a way to offer ...

  4. Water garden - Wikipedia

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    Water garden. Water garden or aquatic garden, is a term sometimes used for gardens, or parts of gardens, where any type of water feature (particularly garden ponds) is a principal or dominant element. The primary focus is on plants, but they will sometimes also house waterfowl, or ornamental fish, in which case it may be called a fish pond.

  5. Lurie Garden - Wikipedia

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    Lurie Garden. Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by GGN (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol), Piet Oudolf, and Robert Israel, [3] it opened on July 16, 2004.

  6. Nelumbo nucifera - Wikipedia

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    To support a quick initial growth, the water level is relatively low [34] and increases when plants grow. Then a maximum of approximately 4,000 per hectare (1,600/acre) with grid spacing of 1.2 by 2 metres (3 ft 11 in × 6 ft 7 in) [ 35 ] are used to plant directly into the mud 10–15 cm ( 3 + 7 ⁄ 8 – 5 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) below the soil surface .

  7. Rain garden - Wikipedia

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    Rain gardens perform best using plants that grow in regularly moist soils, because these plants can typically survive in drier soils that are relatively fertile (contain many nutrients). Chosen vegetation needs to respect site constraints and limitations, and especially should not impede the primary function of bioretention.

  8. Pistia - Wikipedia

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    Pistia is a genus of aquatic plants in the arum family, Araceae. It is the sole genus in the tribe Pistieae which reflects its systematic isolation within the family. [5] The single species it comprises, Pistia stratiotes, is often called water cabbage, water lettuce, Nile cabbage, or shellflower. Its native distribution is uncertain but is ...

  9. Pontederia crassipes - Wikipedia

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    Water hyacinth is a free-floating perennial aquatic plant (or hydrophyte) native to tropical and subtropical South America. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 m (3 ft) in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm (4–8 inches) across on a stem, which is floating by means of ...

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