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Today, gardening, botany and horticulture is a vast profession that still encompasses many of these historical pursuits but has also come to include aesthetic, artistic and cultural pleasure as well.  There is a well developed professional aspect to these professions that now incorporates landscape design, garden design, nursery management, plant species development, and environmental research.  Accompanying this professional niche is the cultural and educational aspects of garden writing, journalism, and painting.  The field now encompasses scientists, artists, writers and the everyday person in a leisurely pursuit.  
 
Today, gardening, botany and horticulture is a vast profession that still encompasses many of these historical pursuits but has also come to include aesthetic, artistic and cultural pleasure as well.  There is a well developed professional aspect to these professions that now incorporates landscape design, garden design, nursery management, plant species development, and environmental research.  Accompanying this professional niche is the cultural and educational aspects of garden writing, journalism, and painting.  The field now encompasses scientists, artists, writers and the everyday person in a leisurely pursuit.  
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LGBTQ participation in the field has been well represented and fundamental to the many changes that have occurred over time.  Already noted is Bacon as the founder of the field of scientific study, and the Prussian [[Alexander Von Humboldt]] is the founder of the field of botany itself.  More recently, Americans [[Joshua David]] and [[Robert Hammond]], the visionary couple who created the concept for the High Line Garden in New York City, have completely changed the concept of urban gardens today. 
  
  

Revision as of 19:09, 25 March 2017

Botany, the study of plants and their place in evolution and which is a part of the science of biology, is an exploratory discipline that evolved with the great scientific revolution heralded by Sir Francis Bacon in the sixteenth century. With the opening of new worlds came the exciting prospect of discovering plant species and their uses unknown to the developed world at the time.

Of course, the concept of gardening and horticulture developed well before the creation of Botany. However, gardening in early eras generally referred to methods of food production and the propogation of herbs believed to be contributors to health and medical cures.

Today, gardening, botany and horticulture is a vast profession that still encompasses many of these historical pursuits but has also come to include aesthetic, artistic and cultural pleasure as well. There is a well developed professional aspect to these professions that now incorporates landscape design, garden design, nursery management, plant species development, and environmental research. Accompanying this professional niche is the cultural and educational aspects of garden writing, journalism, and painting. The field now encompasses scientists, artists, writers and the everyday person in a leisurely pursuit.

LGBTQ participation in the field has been well represented and fundamental to the many changes that have occurred over time. Already noted is Bacon as the founder of the field of scientific study, and the Prussian Alexander Von Humboldt is the founder of the field of botany itself. More recently, Americans Joshua David and Robert Hammond, the visionary couple who created the concept for the High Line Garden in New York City, have completely changed the concept of urban gardens today.


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