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Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture.

In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening is considered to be a relaxing activity for many people.

In general use, herbs are any plants used for food, flavoring, medicine, or fragrances for their savory or aromatic properties.

Culinary use typically distinguishes herbs from spices.

Herbs refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant (either fresh or dried), while spices are produced from other parts of the plant (usually dried), including seeds, berries, bark, roots and fruits.

In everyday usage, a vegetable is any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

The term vegetable is somewhat arbitrary, and largely defined through culinary and cultural tradition.

It normally excludes other food derived from plants such as fruits, nuts, and cereal grains, but includes seeds such as pulses.

The original meaning of the word vegetable, still used in biology, was to describe all types of plant, as in the terms "vegetable kingdom" and "vegetable matter".

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in plants that are floral (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs.

Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower).

Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization (parthenocarpy).

Flowers contain sporangia and are the site where gametophytes develop.

Many flowers have evolved to be attractive to animals, so as to cause them to be vectors for the transfer of pollen.

After fertilization, the ovary of the flower develops into fruit containing seeds.

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.

The corresponding term for animal life is fauna.

Flora, fauna and other forms of life such as fungi are collectively referred to as biota.

Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms gut flora or skin flora.