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For both the casual gardener and the cultivator of more elaborate gardens, garden centers are usually a good place to start when acquiring the goods and information needed obtain the desired results. Ornamental gardening and landscape gardening are ancient arts. The Egyptians built formal walled gardens, and the Mesopotamians constructed private parks and terraced gardens, such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Japanese adopted this principle and elaborated it into a distinct style of highly disciplined arrangements of plants and their settings with the object of achieving subtle beauty based on economy and simplicity. Japanese gardens have become a popular hobby with gardeners around the world.
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