hanging gardens
Elevated planted terraces
Hanging gardens are terraced gardens built on elevated structures, with plants cascading down walls or suspended from multiple levels.
The term evokes the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the ancient world's Seven Wonders—though whether they actually existed remains uncertain.
Modern hanging gardens appear in vertical architecture and urban landscaping: The building featured hanging gardens on every balcony.
- terracedArranged in successive levels
- wonderAmazement or curiosity
- BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
- ancientVery old indeed
- ancient worldPre-medieval human civilizations
Mesopotamia · Fertile Crescent · flowers · plants · historic landmarks · Nebuchadnezzar · elevated · trees · green walls · ziggurat · Semiramis · urban · green space · living walls · window box · epiphyte · air plant · horticulture
- rainforestrainforest, jungle, tropical, tropics, canopy
- cloud forestsepiphytes, mosses, bromeliads, orchids, tree ferns
- avant-garde architecturedeconstructivism, brutalism, futurism, experimental design, geodesic domes
- gardeningflowers, seeds, soil, plants, planting
- IraqBaghdad, Basra, Mosul, Fallujah, Kurdistan
- MesopotamiaBabylon, Sumer, Tigris, Mesopotamia, Euphrates
hanging gardenswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
natural landscape · virgin forest · fallow field · wild prairie
hanging gardensdesert
To leave behind completely
wasteland · dust bowl · salt flat · scorched earth · desolation
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