The 1910s were defined by World War I victory gardens and influenced by art nouveau, while the 1920s and 1930s were preoccupied with the arrival of potted plants on the market. In the past century, gardening has undergone more trends than we can count. The study of botany emerged in the 1600s, followed by botanical gardens. ‘Scholar gardens’ and palace gardens reflected culture and government as civilizations flourished. Letters described beautiful villa gardens teeming with carefully domesticated and cultivated plants. They depicted everything from rural life and herbal medicines to waterworks that were placed in gardens. By 1100 B.C., gardens had moved beyond agriculture, cropping up in front of temples and around public buildings.īetween 100 BC and 100 A.D., books on horticulture, agriculture, and botany started to take off. All over the world, different flowers, produce, and herbs sprung up and were domesticated, then shared. Gardening flourished all over the world - and almost at the same time! While evidence of ancient rice cultivation was found in China in 7000 B.C., corn was found in Central America, and so on. It’s probable that the first real farms and gardens were established in Mesopotamia.

humans used these enclosures as a kind of primitive landscaping, as well as to produce food. However, it’s clear that the first enclosures in forests and wild spaces were made all the way back in 10000 B.C. The history of gardening is so old and intertwined with agriculture that it can be challenging to tell where farming ends and gardening begins.

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