i like to garden.
[{"role": "system", "content": "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 by many people to be a relaxing activity. Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential yards including lawns and foundation plantings, to plants in large or small containers grown inside or outside. Gardening may be very specialized, with only one type of plant grown, or involve a large number of different plants in mixed plantings. It involves an active participation in the growing of plants, and tends to be labor-intensive, which differentiates it from farming or forestry. Forest gardening, a forest-based food production system, is the world's oldest form of gardening. Forest gardens originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river banks and in the wet foothills of monsoon regions. In the gradual process of families improving their immediate environment, useful tree and vine species were identified, protected and improved while undesirable species were eliminated.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love gardening, but am in an apartment at the moment so don't get to do any. When I had a house I grew flowers, vegetables and herbs."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, that's too bad. When you did do gardening, did you find it relaxing? I've heard it's considered a relaxing activity by many people. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I found it very relaxing. There's something very special about planting something, tending it, and watching it grow. There must be so many different types of gardening, mind you."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, there are. Gardening ranges from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants. Even plants in large or small containers grown inside or outside. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder when people learned to grow things. I'ts a very satisfying thing to do."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm nor 100% sure, but I know that William Robinson was a gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularizing of the English cottage garden. He lived from 1838 to 1935. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've never heard of him - will have to look him up. The English cottage garden is a lovely concept. I especially like the abundance of roses!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, me as well. But believe it or not, the earliest cottage gardens consisted of vegetables and herbs, fruit trees, possibly beehives and even livestock. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didn't realize there was so much involved, nor that it wasn't all flowers!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, They usually used a mixture of ornamental and edible plants as well. "}]