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The European gardening most probably began in ancient Greece, in the neighborhoods of 400 av. J. - C. Indeed, one knows writings of the time that Hippocrates and other Greek scientists then used crop plants to produce drugs. The Roman culture being strongly inspired by the Greeks, the gardening extended to ancient Rome. Thus was born little by little the Jardin with Italian the in its splendor with the Rebirth. To the neighborhoods of the years 1920, there remained the Western model of the Jardinage. Since, the interest in occident for the Asian gardening receives an almost equivalent interest.

Gardening in Antiquity

The origin of the European gardening would be thus in Greece. As in Egypt, but with a few centuries of delay, the culture of plants with an aim other than direct consumption is the result of a long evolution. The first interest which one finds with the plants (except their consumption as food) is their possible medicinal capacity. Thus, two conditions are absolutely necessary to be seen developing the gardening: the progress of agricultural technology and sciences. It would seem that it is in Athens, in the neighborhoods of the fourth century before Jesus-Christ, that for the first time were joined together these elements on the European territory. Certain scientists studied the plants then in order to find curative capacities to them, which put them in the obligation as of domesticating them and cultivating them. The first gardens were thus probably garden-laboratories, located in the courses interior of the Greek villas. Épicure is one of these biologist-philosophers of Antiquity. He admits in his writings largely appreciating his times of meditation in his court: the plants that it cultivates make it possible him there to better feel nature and the life. The idea is born that the paradise must be a sublime garden with the luxuriant and healthy plants, so much such a medium is pleasant. It is what little by little the Greeks seek to obtain. A garden must be the reflection of the perfection of the world and nature, in order to wake up a certain wellbeing, a positivism. One installs there also pets to perfect this image.

Gardening with the Middle Ages

With the Middle Ages, the gardening received only very little attention, even when it is about food Jardinage. Only the monks and other monks were interested in it. They often worked out them in the gardens of their abbeys.

Gardening with the Rebirth

The interest for the gardens of the ancient type began again. They are born in Florence in what one names the Jardin with Italian the.

Moreover are born the botanical gardens. One indeed started to study the plants in general and either only the medicinal plants.

Gardening at the 19th century

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Gardening at the 20th century

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Gardening with the 21e century

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