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.
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. 
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.
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. 
I wonder when people learned to grow things. I'ts a very satisfying thing to do.
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. 
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!
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. 
I didn't realize there was so much involved, nor that it wasn't all flowers!
Yes, They usually used a mixture of ornamental and edible plants as well.