Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, next to the display, cultivation and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and artificial materials. The most common today is known as a residential garden, but the garden has traditionally been a term more generally. Zoos, which display wild animals in simulated natural habitats, were formerly called zoological gardens. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, garden often means a shortened form of botanical gardens. 

The etymology of the word refers to the box: Gardin is Middle English, from Anglo-French Gardin, garden, of Germanic origin, similar to Old High German Gard, GART, a box or a compound, as in Stuttgart. See Grad (Slavic settlement) for more complete etymology. The courtyard of the words, the court, and America hortus (which means "garden", therefore, horticulture and orchard) are cognates, all referred to an enclosed space. 

The term "garden" in British English refers to an enclosed area of ​​land, usually next to a building. This is known as a playground of American English. 

Some traditional types of eastern gardens, such as Zen gardens, use plants such as parsley. Xeriscape gardens use local native plants that do not require irrigation or extensive use of other resources while still providing the benefits of a garden setting. Gardens may have structural improvements, sometimes called follies, including water features such as fountains, ponds (with or without fish), waterfalls or creeks, dry beds of streams, statues, gazebos, pergolas and more. 

Some gardens are for ornamental purposes, while some gardens also produce food crops, sometimes in separate areas, or sometimes mixed with ornamentals. gardens for food production are distinguished from farms by their smaller scale, labor intensive methods of work, and their purpose (enjoyment of a hobby rather than produce for sale). Flower gardens combine plants of different heights, colors, textures and fragrances to create interest and delight the senses.