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Are you new to gardening? Love that lush look of green, hoping for colorful foilage and just don't know where to begin? If you are a novice and maybe your thumb is more yellow than green, this is the website for you. Alternatively, if you claim to be a gardening expert, garden global will supply you with interesting and exclusive information regarding new plant breeds, methods, designs and more. garden global is blooming with more information than any other major gardening website on the net.

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Gardening has been around in one form or another for centuries, but thanks to the extensive drawings, and various artefacts left in the tombs and temples of the early Egyptians, the gardens of ancient Egypt left particular impact on later cultures. Their lives were recorded in great detail, giving us a good understanding of their background. The drawings show us both the type of gardens they enjoyed, and the plants they favoured.

They had lush gardens along the river Nile, where the rich silt (regularly left by Spring floods) allowed them grow bountiful crops of many types. Because the climate was hot and dry, they had to create extensive and sophisticated irrigation systems. Their garden designs incorporated practicality with beauty - plants were used for food; medication; shade; communication (Papyrus); decoration, and for worship Nymphaea caerula and N. lotus, Water Lily). The Persians, when they conquered Egypt in 525 B.C. apparently liked the garden designs of the vanquished; they later began to adopt the walled in, geometric garden style for themselves. (The Persians were very tree oriented - they considered it as important that their young men learned to plant and care for trees, as it was for them to learn to make armour.)
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