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.
Gardening
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use. Gardening is considered by many people to be a relaxing activity.
Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs
give the impression of an old-fashioned country garden.
Plants.
Plants Overview.
Until the late 19th century, cottage gardens mainly grew vegetables for household consumption. Typically half the garden would be used for cultivating potatoes and half for a mix of other vegetables plus some culinary and medicinal herbs. John Claudius Loudon wrote extensively on cottage gardens in his book "An Encyclopædia of Gardening" (1822) and in "Gardener's Magazine" from 1826. In 1838 he wrote "I seldom observe any thing in a