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Garden As A Collection Of Plants
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. [from wikipedia]
Arboretums Back Corner Blue Daisy Anemone Blue Shade Anemone Cold Frame Embarcadero Center Emeryville Garden Figure Eight Garden Decorations Garden Devices Garden Gnomes Garden Irrigation Garden Protection Garden Shed Garden Tools Garden Walking Path Garlic Grapes Greenhouse Log Piles Monster New Dirt Ponds Raised Bed Rooftop Garden The Beast The Front Yard The Snake The Well
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Arboretums, As A Place For Trees and Other Plants

An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum (from the Latin frutex, meaning shrub), and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study.[from wikipedia]

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Back Corner, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

The corner of a fence is the place where two lines of fencing meat, usually but not always, at a right angle.[from wikipedia]

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The Beast, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugnen, Oregon

Raised beds produce a variety of benefits: they extend the planting season, they can reduce weeds if designed and planted properly, and they reduce the need to use poor native soil. Since the gardener does not walk on the raised beds, the soil is not compacted and the roots have an easier time growing. Waist-high raised beds enable the elderly and physically disabled to grow vegetables without having to bend over to tend them.[from wikipedia]

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Blue Daisy Anemone, As A Garden Plant, Eugene, Oregon

These low-profile, true blue blooms will blanket your beds and borders.Cup-shaped, 2" flowers feature two layers of cornflower-blue, daisy-like petals and eye-catching black centres. Especially impressive in large drifts, these low-growing naturalizers create a sea of blue that just gets better every year. A perfect companion for perennial shrubs and late-blooming tulips and daffodils.Anemone coronaria 'Lord Lieutenant.'[from brecks.com]

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Blue Shade Anemone, As A Garden Plant

Emerging even before some crocus flowers, this early anemone blankets the once-barren ground with petite, daisy-like blooms. Growing only to 3-4" tall, they make an outstanding ground cover choice, providing much-needed color to rock gardens, hedge rows and between deciduous trees.[from brecks.com]

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Cold Frame, As A Garden Device

In agriculture and gardening, a cold frame is a transparent-roofed enclosure, built low to the ground, used to protect plants from adverse weather, primarily excessive cold or wet. The transparent top admits sunlight and prevents heat escape via convection that would otherwise occur, particularly at night. Essentially, a cold frame functions as a miniature greenhouse to extend the growing season.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Decorations, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

Garden design can be roughly divided into two groups, formal and naturalistic gardens. The most important consideration in any garden design is how the garden will be used, followed closely by the desired stylistic genres, and the way the garden space will connect to the home or other structures in the surrounding areas.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Devices, As A Means To Prevent

An irrigation sprinkler (also known as a water sprinkler or simply a sprinkler) is a device used to irrigate agricultural crops, lawns, landscapes, golf courses, and other areas.[from wikipedia]

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Figure Eight, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

Eight is a natural number following seven and preceding nine.[from wikipedia]

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Embarcadero Center, Garden, As A Collection Of Plants

Embarcadero Center is a commercial complex of five office towers, two hotels, an underground shopping center with more than 125 stores, bars and restaurants, two movie theaters, and fitness center on three levels. There is an outdoor ice skating rink during winter months.[from wikipedia]

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Emeryville Garden, As A Collection Of Plants

Emeryville is a small city located in northwest Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay.[from wikipedia]

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The Front Yard, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants

In North America, front yards, which normally include considerable driveway and parking space, tend to be mostly lawn even when large, but in Europe they are often treated as a flower garden and may be heavily planted.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Shed, As A Garden Device

Garden sheds or garden tool sheds, including allotment sheds. Garden sheds are used to store seeds, soil, hoses, portable sprinklers, or garden tools such as hand rakes, shovels, lawnmowers, etc.[from wikipedia]

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Garlic, Planted In A Raised Bed Garden, As A Collection Of Plants

Garlic is easy to grow and can be grown year-round in mild climates. While sexual propagation of garlic is possible, nearly all of the garlic in cultivation is propagated asexually, by planting individual cloves in the ground.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Gnomes, As A Collection Of Plants, San Francisco, California

Traditionally, the garden figurines depict male dwarfs wearing red pointy hats. Typically, gnomes stand between one and two feet (30 and 60 cm). Originating as a decoration for the wealthy in Europe, garden gnomes are now prevalent in gardens and lawns throughout the Western world, among all social classes.[from wikipedia]

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Grapes, Over A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants

Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes or they can be used for making wine, jam, grape juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.[from wikipedia]

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Greenhouse, As A Garden Device, Eugene, Oregon

A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Irrigation, As A Garden Device

Irrigation is the artificial process of applying controlled amounts of water to land to assist in production of crops. Irrigation helps to grow agricultural crops, maintain landscapes, and revegetate disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of less than average rainfall.[from wikipedia]

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Log Piles, As Raised Garden Decor, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

Piles of twigs and logs can provide cover for birds and other animals. Such wood piles are included in gardens to make the garden more inviting to such animals.

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Monster, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one.[from wikipedia]

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New Dirt, As A Garden Plant, Eugene, Oregon

oil, also commonly referred to as earth, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life of plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Walking Path, As A Garden Device, Eugene, Oregon

A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, cycles, and horses. They can be found in a wide variety of places, from the centre of cities, to farmland, to mountain ridges.[from wikipedia]

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Ponds, In TheBack Garden, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Protection, As A Collection Of Plants

Some structures need to be created to protect plants from the cold and snow of winter.

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Raised Bed, As A Garden Device

Raised-bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is enclosed in containment units ("beds"), which are usually made of wood, rock, or concrete and which can be of any length or shape.[from wikipedia]

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Rooftop Garden, Salesforce Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco, California

Everyone's welcome to enjoy this public park, a living roof where a curved walking trail lined with benches surrounds grassy lawns, dancing fountains, a children's play area, and an amphitheater for staging free events from arts and crafts to Zumba[from the website]

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The Snake, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.[from wikipedia]

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Garden Tools, As A Form Of Garden Device, Eugene, Oregon

A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment. Although many animals use simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates back hundreds of millennia, have been observed using tools to make other tools.[from wikipedia]

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The Well, A Raised Garden, As A Collection Of Plants, Eugene, Oregon

A well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, or drilling to access liquid resources, usually water. The oldest and most common kind of well is a water well, to access groundwater in underground aquifers.[from wikipedia]


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