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• Los Angeles, California
  ==Community gardens== ==Botanical Gardens==
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• Japanese garden
  ...owra, New South Wales|Cowra, NSW]] shows many of the typical elements of a Japanese garden]] ...apanese gardens of quite another style, evoking rural simplicity. Japanese gardens have also been imitated in Western gardening.
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• Garden
  {{Boxboxtop|Gardens Around the World|right}} [[Image:Butchart gardens.JPG|thumb|250px|right|An exceptionally large garden in [[Canada]].]]
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• Kousa Dogwood
  ...'Japanese Flowering Dogwood''' ({{Nihongo|Yamaboushi|ヤマボウシ|Yamaboushi}} in Japanese), is a small [[deciduous]] [[tree]] 8-12 m tall, native to eastern [[Asia]] Image:Cornus_kousa_img_2066.jpg|Tree, at Longwood Gardens
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• Ostrich fern
  The plants are also grown in [[Japan]], where the sprouts ("kogomi" in Japanese) are a delicacy. [[Category:Japanese cuisine]]
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• Wingnut
  | image_caption = Japanese Wingnut (''Pterocarya rhoifolia'') *''[[Pterocarya rhoifolia]]'' - '''Japanese Wingnut'''. [[Japan]], eastern [[China]] ([[Shandong]]).
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• History of gardening
  ...it to [[Hermarchus]] of [[Mytilene]]. [[Alciphron]] also mentions private gardens. ...o elaborate development later, and the wealthiest of Romans built enormous gardens, many of whose ruins are still to be seen, such as at [[Hadrian's Villa]].
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• Greater burdock
  ...tium'' ([[burdock]]) [[genus]] in the [[Asteraceae]] family, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a [[vegetable]]. ...Ages]] as a vegetable, but now it is rarely used, with the exception of [[Japanese cuisine|Japan]] where is called ''gobo'' (牛蒡 or ゴボウ) as well as i
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• List of botanical gardens in Australia
  ...nical gardens in Australia''', some like the [[Australian National Botanic Gardens]] have collections comprised entirely of Australian native and [[endemic (e * [[Australian National Botanic Gardens]] - [[Acton, Australian Capital Territory|Acton]]
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• Syringa reticulata
  |common_name=Japanese tree lilac ...8.jp/business/product/mainprdct3/hashidoi.html ''Syringa reticulata''] (in Japanese; [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.068.jp/bus
  4 KB (538 words) - 16:06, 23 June 2010
• Shirasawa's Maple
  ...e/aceraceae/ooitayameigetsu/ooitayameigetsu.htm ''Acer shirasawanum''] (in Japanese; [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://had0.big.ous.a ...ae/ooitayameigetsu/ooitayameigetsu2.htm ''Acer shirasawanum'' flowers] (in Japanese; [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://had0.big.ous.a
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• Downy Japanese Maple
  |common_name=Full-moon maple, Downy Japanese Maple ...maples: [http://ganshuku.cool.ne.jp/22hautiwa.html ''Acer japonicum''] (in Japanese; [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ganshuku.cool.
  7 KB (1,092 words) - 19:34, 17 September 2010
• Beautyberry
  ...apan]], is also cultivated in gardens. It is called ''Murasakishikibu'' in Japanese, in honor of [[Murasaki Shikibu]].
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• Nashi Pear
  ..., is sometimes called the '''[[Asian pear]]''' . It has also been called ''Japanese pear'' or ''Taiwan Pear'', as well as ''sand pear'', ''apple pear'', ''bapp ...hey are a popular symbol of spring in East Asia, and are a common sight in gardens or the countryside with the pink or slightly purplish flowers of peach or p
  4 KB (592 words) - 15:44, 12 September 2007
• Wisteria floribunda
  ...and along streams in Japan; much cult. there in temple grounds, parks, and gardens; also grown in this country. F.S. 9:880.—From the Chinese wisteria (W. si | name = Japanese Wisteria
  6 KB (897 words) - 14:42, 25 November 2009
• Acorus gramineus
  |common_name=Dwarf sedge, Japanese rush, Japanese sweet flag ...e favorable, and it is frequently used around the edges of ponds and water gardens <ref>[http://www.floridata.com/ref/A/acor_gra.cfm ''Acorus gramineus'']</re
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• Topiary
  [[Image:Villandry Gardens.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Modern revival: traditional topiary again fills the s ...e circle of [[Julius Caesar]], with introducing the first topiary to Roman gardens, and [[Pliny the Younger]] describes in a letter the elaborate figures of a
  11 KB (1,675 words) - 15:41, 9 April 2007
• Nandina
  Nandina (Japanese name). Berberidaceae. A small, tender shrub with bright red or white berrie ...et in height, though of slow growth. For a few years past its use in local gardens has steadily increased and bids fair to rival that accorded it in Japan, wh
  3 KB (469 words) - 13:14, 8 January 2010
• Acer rufinerve
  ...name=gelderen>van Gelderen, C. J. & van Gelderen, D. M. (1999). Maples for Gardens: A Color Encyclopedia</ref><ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information N ...cientific and English names derive from the reddish down on the veins, the Japanese name from the bark pattern.<ref name=kobe/><ref name=kanagawa/><ref name="g
  6 KB (850 words) - 01:38, 29 October 2010
• Papaver rhoeas
  ...fls. than ordinary and of more varied shades. They are called Japanese or Japanese pompons. Rhaeas was the name used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for the Var. Hookeri, W. Miller (P. Hookeri, Baker). A puzzling plant found in gardens of India, and of unknown parentage. It is nearest to P. Rhoeas, and "differ
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