Hobbies and Pastimes
Gardening
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Growing plants for pleasure and use around the home: flowers, vegetables, herbs, lawns and trees. The most widely practiced of all hobbies, gardening differs from farming in its scale and its motive, done for beauty, food and the work itself rather than for market, and every culture has built its own tradition of it, from the cottage garden to the Japanese garden.
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OriginOrnamental gardening for pleasure is attested across the ancient world, from Egyptian tomb paintings of pleasure gardens onward 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Jekyll is remembered as a premier influence on garden design, especially the herbaceous border and planting for colour.
Victory gardens applied ordinary home gardening skill to wartime food production
Robinson championed the wild, natural planting style against formal Victorian bedding; Jekyll herself credited him with putting hardy-plant gardening within easy reach of ordinary gardeners.
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