Landscaping works toward shaping the earth, clearing away what’s naturally there or at least what is presently
on the site and imposing a new construction.
Gardening is more concerned with plants, how to grow them best, pruning, fertilizing, preventing disease,etc.
Landscaping may also include planting but it is often just part of an “installation” which includes the
hardscaping elements such as concrete, wood and stone and irrigation for the “plant material”.
Gardening too incorporates design but usually works with the site as it already exists.
Farming is growing plants for food to consume or sell.
Gardeners have to do a lot of digging, weeding, mulching and watering. this is usually done by hand or
with the aid of small motor tools
Landscapers have to do digging too. Lots and lots of digging. sometimes the digging is done with big
pieces of equipment like a backhoe.
Farmers like backhoes too.
Landscapers have to truck in big loads of soil and rock and mulch.
Gardeners like that stuff too but usually on a smaller scale. Good gardeners incorporate compost into
their gardens.
Some farmers use compost.
Landscaping is masculine
Gardening is feminine
Landscapers oppress the earth
Gardeners oppress the plants, sometimes
Can you guess which one I consider myself?
they didn’t call it the landscape of Eden
