Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing plants. Ornamental plants are usually grown-up for their flowers, foliage, overall appearance, or for their dyes. Useful plants are grown for utilization (vegetables, fruits, herbs, and leaf vegetables) or for medical use. A gardener is someone who practices gardening.

Gardening range in scale from fruit orchards, to lengthy boulevard 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 might be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a large number of different plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active involvement in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry.