Parks and Gardens

17 October 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, Environment Reading Time:  8 minutes

Hannover - Great Garden in Herrenhausen Gardens © Arabsalam

Hannover – Great Garden in Herrenhausen Gardens © Arabsalam

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. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.   read more…

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