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The German term "“garden"” is derived from "“switch"” (indogermanisch "“more gher"” and later "“ghortos"”) and been etymologisch with English "“yard"” (yard), franz. "“jardin"” (garden), skand. "“gaard"” (yard) and slaw. "“degree"” (castle, attachment, Umfriedung) related. Feasting, Haselnussruten are meant o.a., which - into one another interlaced - umfriedeten in former times the garden. Garden is called thus originally umfriedetes and/or set in country, and stood for more under special legal protection (garden peace).

Gardens are not only put on, in order to harvest a direct yield (utilizable garden), but over an artistic, a mirror-image-ritual, a religious, to therapeutic purpose and/or the leisure activities and recovery to serve for (ornamental garden).

Garden types

Beside today the form of a mixing garden which can be found often, which unites many of the aspects mentioned in itself, one differentiates the back garden or utilizable garden, vegetable, fruit, herb garden, the allotment, uncultivated garden, the botanischen garden, the attempt garden with respect to Europe also depending upon task in particular uvm.

Gardens can be publicly or privately, eingefriedet or openly accessible.

If a garden is larger, so that it cannot be maintained by individual humans no more beside the occupation work, and if it not for yield purposes, but when aesthetic object will maintain put on and, then one speaks of a park, even if in the name of such a plant the word "“garden"” kept (e.g. English garden). According to planting, styles or formative topics are differentiated (baroque park (French garden), Zengarten, Chinese garden, Japanese garden, Italian garden, English landscape park, rose garden, rock-garden, Staudengarten, desert garden, gravel garden, shade garden, water garden, Bible garden, farmer garden, cross garden, ornamentaler garden, artist garden, monastery garden, castle garden, landscape garden).

Planting

In a garden one uses useful plants (fruit and vegetable, kitchen and welfare plants) and ornamental plants. In addition belong:

• Summer flowers - one year's ones or two-year ones - flower in the first or second year after the sowing;
• Stauden - of several years ones - draw into the winter and drive out from root, bulb or tuber again again;
• Wood - half bushes, bushes, trees (leaves wood and Koniferen) - summer-green, winter-green, evergreen;
• - frost-sensitive plants, which must winter in the house or winter garden.