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- Ecuador has the largest number of orchid species, with over 3,500, following by Colombia, with over 2,700, and Brazil, with over 2,500.
- Gardens often have design features including statuary, follies, pergolas,
trellises, stumperies, dry creek beds, and
water features such as fountains,
ponds (with or without fish),
waterfalls or creeks.
- There are three popular types of gardens, ornamental garden, kitchen garden and cottage garden, throughout history.
- An ornamental garden is a peaceful and quiet places to spend time, and features colorful flowers, fish ponds with aquatic plants, shady walkways, and statuary (e.g.; statues); it refers to planting flowers, shrubs, and trees for their aesthetic value and can be found all around one's property; ornamental
plants or garden plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects.
- A kitchen gardens is a small, rectangular gardens used for growing cabbage, parsnips, leeks, onions, herbs, leafy greens, vegetables, and fruit for everyday use inside the kitchen.
- A cottage garden is a garden containing a combination of fruits, herbs, and ornamental flowers; it's a place for the cultivation of flowers, vegetables,
or small plants at or around a small, humble dwelling.
- Both Chinese and Japanese garden design traditionally is intended to evoke the natural landscape of mountains
and rivers. While Chinese gardens are intended to be viewed from within the garden and are intended as a setting for everyday life, often including a water feature, while Japanese gardens are intended to be viewed from within the house, somewhat like a diorama and set in a wetter climate with
water, and sand or pebbles raked into a wave pattern.
- Most Chinese garden have used a traditional garden design concept that expresses the relationship to nature and the idea of balance through the art of mimicking natural setting with the existence of mountains, rocks, water, and wind elements.
- The incredibly creepy garden in Japan’s Toyama prefecture located in the
Fureai Sekibutsu no Satoi village,
is home to 800 life-like statues.
The sculptures were
created in the late 1980s at the request of Mutsuo Furukawa, a prominent local businessmen, at an estimated cost of $44M (6 billion yen). While some appear to
be Buddhist deities,
many are people he knew during his lifetime, some are lined up in rows, some are scattered over the hills, with many almost disappearing into the long grass.
After Furukawa's death, the park fell into disrepair.
- Trees can shade the house from the sun in summer, and allow the sun to penetrate during winter. Few trees planted around the house can save up to $250 per year in energy costs.
- Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth; it can grow up to as fast as 100 cm (39 in) in a day.
- The Poison Garden is a garden established in February 2005 in the U.K. It has over 100 intoxicating, poisonous and murderous plants.
Poisonous plants planted in this garden can kill people. Visitors are strictly prohibited from smelling, touching, or tasting any of the plants, although some people still occasionally faint
from inhaling toxic fumes while walking in the garden. The garden is part of a drugs education program, the drugs education program stems from the Poison Garden tours, where people can learn more about drug plants, and the whole idea behind
it is to prevent drug-related harm.
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