I love gardening, but am in an apartment at the moment so don't get to do any. When I had a house I grew flowers, vegetables and herbs.
Oh, that's too bad. When you did do gardening, did you find it relaxing? I've heard it's considered a relaxing activity by many people. 
I found it very relaxing. There's something very special about planting something, tending it, and watching it grow. There must be so many different types of gardening, mind you.
Yes, there are. Gardening ranges from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants. Even plants in large or small containers grown inside or outside. 
I wonder when people learned to grow things. I'ts a very satisfying thing to do.
I'm nor 100% sure, but I know that William Robinson was a gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularizing of the English cottage garden. He lived from 1838 to 1935. 
I've never heard of him - will have to look him up. The English cottage garden is a lovely concept. I especially like the abundance of roses!
practical than today's, with emphasis on vegetables and herbs, fruit trees, perhaps a beehive, and even livestock. Flowers, used to fill spaces, gradually became more dominant. The traditional cottage garden was usually enclosed, perhaps with a rose-bowered gateway. Flowers common to early cottage gardens included traditional florists' flowers such as primroses and violets, along with flowers with household use such as calendula and various herbs. Others were the richly scented old-fashioned roses that bloomed once a year, and simple flowers like
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