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a slow-motion war between you and chaos, fought with a trowel and stubborn hope
means A piece of cultivated ground, usually near a house, where flowers, vegetables, or other plants are deliberately grown and tended.
from From Old North French 'gardin' (Old French 'jardin'), itself rooted in a Germanic word meaning an enclosure — a cousin of 'yard' and the 'gard' in Old English 'geard.' The deep idea is the same: a bit of the world fenced off and claimed, ground walled away from the wild. That enclosing instinct also gives us 'Eden's' guarded gates in legend, though the word 'garden' simply carries the older, humbler sense of land hedged in and made one's own.
- oldest garden
- Persian paradise gardens predate the word paradise itself
- tomato
- botanically a fruit, legally a vegetable since 1893
- weeds
- just plants thriving where someone forgot to ask permission
- hidden labor
- one in three bites of food needs pollinators
- victory gardens
- grew 40 percent of US produce during WWII
versailles gardens — french royal estate with 250,000 plants across 250 acres, created by louis xiv in 1661
babylon hanging gardens — ancient wonder of the world in mesopotamia, built by nebuchadnezzar ii around 600 bce
eden project — biome garden in cornwall displaying 100,000 plants from temperate and tropical climates