History of Gardens

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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From ancient temple courtyards to today’s backyard barbecues, gardens have evolved as places of beauty, power, and sometimes just a place to put a hedge maze. Explore their history and drift off to the soothing sounds of landscape design through the ages. For more sleepy content, visit icantsleeppodcast.com. Want More? 🌿 Request a topic: icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic 😴 Listen ad-free & support: icantsleep.supportingcast.fm 🛒 Sleep-friendly products: icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors Wikipedia Attribution: This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on History of Gardening, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - History of Gardening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.0	Tonight's topic is about the history of gardens.
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1:32.5	The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture. Smaller gardens generally had been a kitchen garden as their first
1:40.2	priority, as it is still often the case. The broad traditions that have dominated gardening since ancient times
1:51.0	include those of the ancient Near East,
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