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Abstract enIn Turkey, same as many other countries, rapid and crooked construction in the cities have been emerged in parallel with rapid population growth and industrialization process. Accordingly, this process being still in progress has been moving away the urban community from nature day by day. In this way, parks, children`s playgrounds, home gardens, etc. that are in open green land system play an important role for urban community who have difficulty in meeting the need for recreation in urban residential areas. Vegetation and habitats in these areas are considered to be indispensable elements in terms of perception. Characteristics of geographic features and climate of Turkey, accordingly, may be major changes at very short distances. These changes in plant flora of the country`s rich diversity of species on the one hand, on the other hand is a major resource regions close to each other leads to the formation of differences in the selection of plant species. Regional differences in the selection of plant species in the formation of the local people of the world and across the country, time-dependent changes in lifestyles and eating habits are formed in the historical process plays an important role. In the city of Malatya, outdoors plant preferences of the people in order to determine has been conducted a face to face survey technique with 420 volunteers. Results of the survey assessed residents not only use their gardens outdoors plants but also they wish to use of plant preference and in the formation of these preferences that contribute cultural situation been tried to explain.

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