About Gardening -History and Styles-: #1 What Gardening Is

Gardening is an activity of working in a garden. Little more detailed, growing some flowers or trees, cutting a lawn and raising vegetables are activities of it. In other words, gardening is to enjoy caring garden. Actually, gardening began as “forest gardening” in prehistoric times; I’ll give you further information about it in the third article. Then, why do people enjoy making their garden? The answer is depends on individuals. But many of those who enjoy gardening think flowers and trees are beautiful, maybe others cultivate their own vegetables only for eating. The most interesting point is there are no same gardens at all as well as no plants have same shape. So atmosphere of each garden rely on the gardener’s sense and skill to make it. Those who like red may use many red flowers or who like green may use plants with a lot of leaves.

Plants are living and gardening is a activity to take care lives. Good soil is one of the most important things to glow great plants because it thinks of a house and meal for every plant. Good soil seems it has proper drainage, nutrition, ventilation and water holding property. In addition, these balances depend on the kind of plants. For example, most kind of plants need some fertilizer to be better but cactuses can glow with less amounts of them (much fertilizer can give them bad effect). Other factors to make good view of garden are sunshine and climates. Where flowers cannot get enough sunlight is bad place to grow them, of course. Plants from tropical areas cannot glow well in cold climates. When it comes to cultivate any vegetables, these influence become more conspicuous. Bad surroundings make their fruits smaller and less tasteful. Thus it is required of good gardeners a lot of knowledge.

As you know, there’re gardens not only for individuals but also for public. Most of public gardens are artistic and have themes like tropical, wildlife, Japanese etc. Those who make such garden are sometimes called “landscape architect”. A picture below (picture 1) is one of a famous garden named The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It looks far larger scale than individuals’. Activities to make that garden are for landscape architect than gardeners. In these large public gardens, it is seen that much differences among each cultures. Here are two pictures of Japanese and tropical garden. As you can see, gardens can introduce their cultures.