hanging garden

Suspended botanical display

A hanging garden is a garden built on terraces or elevated structures, with plants cascading down from multiple levels.

The term evokes the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Modern hanging gardens may be rooftop installations or vertical plantings on building facades: The apartment complex featured a hanging garden on every balcony.

historic

Babylon

Ancient Mesopotamian capital

terraces · antiquity · ziggurat · irrigation · Herodotus · ancient · mythology · archaeology · ruins · inscription

landscaping

green wall

Vegetation-covered vertical surface

cascade · foliage · planters · climbing plants · irrigation · ferns · succulents · perennials · arbors · potted plants

Categories
Opposites
vertical orientation

hanging gardensunken garden

Recessed cultivated plot

lawn

cultivation and life

hanging gardendesert

To leave behind completely

dust bowl · wasteland · barren · fallow field · scorched earth

materiality and nature

hanging gardenconcrete jungle

Dense cityscape, few parks

concrete slab · parking lot · hardscape · concrete · gravel pit

Family

hang, garden, hangs, hanging, hanger, hangers, hangings, overhang, overhanging

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G