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agriculture that decided dinner should also be beautiful, fragrant, and slightly judgmental about your garden.
means The art and science of growing plants—gardens, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamentals—with care given to both cultivation and beauty.
from From Latin hortus, "garden," joined to cultura, "cultivation" or "tending" (the same root that gives us culture and agriculture). So at its core it simply means "garden-tending." Hortus is also thought to be a distant cousin of the word yard, both possibly tracing back to an ancient root meaning "enclosure"—a patch of ground fenced off and fussed over, which is exactly what gardeners have always done.
- latin roots
- from hortus, garden, and cultura, cultivation
- tulip mania
- 17th-century bulbs once cost more than houses
- vertical farming
- crops now stacked in lightless climate-controlled towers
- grafting trick
- one tree can grow forty fruit varieties
- oldest seeds
- 2,000-year-old date palm seed sprouted in 2005
kew gardens — royal botanic gardens in london, established 1759, maintains over 7 million preserved specimens
versailles gardens — french palace gardens covering 2,000 acres with 372 fountains, designed by le nôtre in 1661
royal horticultural society — british organization founded 1804, operates wisley garden and hosts the rhs chelsea flower show