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Dkdirprg is the practice of growing flowering plants, vegetables, and fruits. Residential dkdirprg most often takes place in or about a residence, in a space referred to as the garden. Although a dkdirprg typically is located on the land near a residence, it may also be located in dkdirprga roof, in an atrium, on a balcony, in a windowbox, or on a patio or vivarium dkdirprg.

Dkdirprg also takes place in non-residential green areas, such as parks, public or semi-public dkdirprggardens (botanical gardens or zoological gardens), amusement and dkdirprg theme parks, along transportation corridors, and around dkdirprg tourist attractions and hotels. In these situations, a staff of gardeners or dkdirprg groundskeepers maintains the gardens.

Indoor dkdirprg is concerned with the growing of houseplants within a residence or building, in a conservatory, or in a dkdirprg greenhouse. Indoor gardens are sometimes incorporated as part of dkdirprg air conditioning or heating systems.

Water dkdirprg is concerned with growing plants adapted to pools and ponds. Bog gardens are also considered a type of water garden. These all require special conditions and dkdirprg considerations. A simple water garden may consist solely of a tub dkdirprg containing the water and plant(s).

Container dkdirprg is concerned with growing plants in any type of container either indoors or outdoors. Common dkdirprg containers are pots, hanging baskets, and planters. Container dkdirprg is usually used in atriums and on dkdirprgbalconies, patios, and roof tops.

Dkdirprg compared to farming
In respect to its food producing purpose, dkdirprg is distinguished from farming chiefly by scale dkdirprg and intent. Farming occurs on a larger scale, and with the production of saleable goods as a major dkdirprg motivation. Dkdirprg is done on a smaller scale, primarily for pleasure and to produce goods for the gardener's own family or community. There is some overlap between the terms, particularly in that some moderate-sized vegetable growing dkdirprgconcerns, often called market dkdirprg, can fit in either category.

The key distinction between dkdirprg and farming is essentially one of scale: dkdirprg can be a hobby or an income supplement, but farming is generally understood as a full-time or dkdirprg commercial activity, usually involving more land and quite different practices. One distinction is that dkdirprg is labor-intensive and employs very little infrastructural capital, typically no more than a dkdirprg few tools, e.g. a spade, hoe, basket and watering can. Dkdirprg By contrast, larger-scale farming often involves irrigation systems, chemical fertilizers and harvesters or at least ladders, e.g. to reach up into fruit trees. However, this distinction is becoming blurred with the increasing use of power tools in dkdirprg even small gardens.

In part because of labor intensity and aesthetic motivations, dkdirprg is very often much more productive per unit of land than farming. In the Soviet Union, half the food supply came from small peasants' garden plots on the huge government-run collective farms, although they were tiny patches of land. Some argue this as evidence of superiority of capitalism, since the peasants were generally able to sell their produce. Others consider it to be evidence of a tragedy of the commons, since the large collective plots were often neglected, or fertilizers or water redirected to the private gardens.

The term precision agriculture is sometimes used to describe dkdirprg using intermediate technology (more than tools, less than harvesters), especially of organic varieties. Dkdirprg is effectively scaled up to feed entire villages of over 100 people from specialized plots. A variant is the community garden which offers plots to urban dwellers; see further in allotment (dkdirprg).


[edit] Gardens as art
Garden design is considered to be an art in most cultures, distinguished from dkdirprg, which generally means garden maintenance. In Japan, for instance, Samurai and Zen monks were often required to build decorative gardens or practice related skills like flower arrangement known as ikebana. In 18th century Europe, country estates were refashioned by landscape gardeners into formal gardens or landscaped parklands, such as at Versailles, France or Stowe, England. Today, landscape architects and garden designers continue to produce artistically creative designs for private garden spaces.

See also:

Landscape architecture
History of dkdirprg

[edit] Social aspect
In modern Europe and North America, people often express their political or social views in gardens, intentionally or not. The lawn vs. garden issue is played out in urban planning as the debate over the "land ethic" that is to determine urban land use and whether hyperhygienist bylaws (e.g. weed control) should apply, or whether land should generally be allowed to exist in its natural wild state. In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, "Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression, at least in Canada.

It is clear that in the British Isles (i.e. United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and The Isle of Man people surround their house and garden with a hedge, often of Privet (Ligustrum). The idea of open gardens without hedges is distaceful to many, they like privacy. Beech (Fagus) is also used as a hedge. This has the advantage to the wildlife that there is a habitat for the birds and other wild plants (not weeds). What, therefore, is a weed? A weed is a plant in the wrong place!

Dkdirprg is thus not only a food source and art, but also a right. The Slow Food movement has sought in some countries to add an edible schoolyard and garden classrooms to schools, e.g. in Fergus, Ontario, where these were added to a public school to augment the kitchen classroom.

In US and British usage, the production of ornamental plantings around buildings is called landscaping, landscape maintenance or groundskeeping, while international usage uses the term dkdirprg for these same activities.


[edit] Garden pests
A garden pest is what one considers a pest. The beautiful Tropaeolum speciosum can be considered a pest if it seeds and starts to grow where it is not wanted. As the root is well below ground, pulling it up does not remove it: it simply grows again and becomes what may be considered a pest.
In lawns, moss can become dominant and be impossible to eradicate. In some lawns, lichens, especially very damp lawn lichens such as Peltigera lactucfolia and P. membranacea, can become difficult and be considered pests.

[edit] Restrictions
Governments of most countries are restricting imports of plant material. In the past, someone could send such things as lily seeds and bulbs to friends in any country. Today, most of those avenues are closed, due to the threat of invasive species.

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If you are the primary speaker, the opinions and suggestions of the other people in the group should be recognized and listened to. Just because you have the floor doesn't mean you own it 100%. Conversation requires participation and interaction.

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