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{{quote|'' '''Salazar''': So Mr. Kennedy, do you like my garden?<br />

'''''Leon:''' I see you've been able to work in some of your twisted taste, here, too.''|''[[Resident Evil|Resident Evil 4]]''}}

There is probably a hedgemaze -- quitehedgemaze—quite possibly [[Mobile Maze|mobile]].

Scale can vary greatly. A common type of [[Death World]] [[Single Biome Planet|consists entirely of this]]. In instances where the garden grows, expect [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]. See [[The Lost Woods]], [[The Hedge of Thorns]], [[Man-Eating Plant]], [[When Trees Attack]] and [[Lost in Thethe Maize]]. No relation to [[Nasuverse|the garden of Sinners]].

* In ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of The Wind (Manga)|Nausicaa of the Valley of The Wind]]'' almost the entire world appears to be covered in an ever-growing forest that releases a deadly miasma that kills in a single breath, victims often [[High-Pressure Blood|ejecting fountains of blood from their mouths]]. To add to this, the forest is protected by often aggressively territorial insects the size of houses. {{spoiler|Nausicaa secretly grows forest plants on pure water to find that it's not the plants themselves that are poisonous, it's the polluted soil they are growing in. The end of the manga reveals that the plants were genetically modified [[Just Before the End]] to purify the polluted world.}}<br /><br />In the manga there is also an utopic garden, {{spoiler|where the forest has finished purifying the land}}, that turns out to be a Garden of Evil {{spoiler|because humans can no longer survive in such clean air, their lungs having become adapted to the polluted atmosphere.}}

* [[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]] villain Poison Ivy tends to constantly be making these for bases of operations.

== [[Fairy Tale|Fairy Tales]]s ==

* Most of ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'' is set in one of these, albeit a PG-rated one where the traps and flora incapacitate you (or make you smell really, ''really'' bad) rather than kill.

* The poppy field in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (which was also in [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|the book]]).

* Octave Mirbeau's [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torture_Garden_:The Torture Garden (novel) |''Le Jardin des supplices'']] (The Torture Garden) might be a possible candidate for [[Ur Example]] here, as it was first published in 1899.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rapaccini's Daughter" features an even earlier poisonous garden created by a mad scientist -- andscientist—and his daughter is the only one who can survive to walk in it, because she's been engineered to be just as poisonous as all of the plants.

* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series contains the Blight, a continent-spanning rain forest situated past the northern fringes of civilization, filled with ancient biological experiments. Trees scream and attack animals that walk beneath, and everywhere are deadly creatures not even mages (or even the [[Big Bad|Dark One's]] own minions, often enough) dare face. Somewhere beyond it is the Dark One's lair. References to its accelerating expansion are made throughout the series, as a sign that the Last Battle is approaching.<br /><br />In the second book it is said that the Blight has retreated a few hundred meters, implied to be a result of a major victory by the protagonists in the first book. It didn't last.

* In [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (book and film), the Morgul Vale and the Dead Marshes are exactly such a place, with poisonous flowers, glowing undead pools, etc.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[GauntsGaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Traitor General'', the Untill. (Short for "untillable.") Canopy so thick that night and day are the same, filled with giant insects, including poisonous moths.

* In Lee Lightner's [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Space Wolf]] novel ''Wolf's Honour'', the crops of the [[Shadowland|shadow world]] look like corn, but every leaf has a human face, screaming, and [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|pleading for release]]. What's worse, the Space Wolves can not stop to burn them; they will need the weapons that can do it. The Inquisitor explains this as the sacrifices to make the world.

* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''False Gods'', on Davin's moon, the battlefield having been [[Weather Dissonance|transformed from a hot, dry forest to foggy marsh]], it also contains hordes of [[Zombie Apocalypse|walking corpses]].

* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Circle of Magic]]'' books, [[Meaningful Name|Briar and his teacher Rosethorn]] have plant magic -- anyplacemagic—anyplace you happen to piss them off can easily become a Garden of Evil, provided there's any plant life at all -- andall—and they often pack their own. For example, when the temple city where they live has to fight off a pirate attack, their contribution involves tying up the seeds of thorny, viny plants into packages, launching them onto the beach, and giving them a huge rush of magic to make them grow ultra-fast. The resulting tangle of plants is so high and thick that they can't even see the strangled, bleeding pirates underneath. Lady Zenadia from ''Street Magic'' has a different sort of Garden of Evil. How does she manage such lush courtyards in the middle of a desert city? She uses the corpses of teenage gang members as fertilizer.

* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The Tower of the Elephant (Literature)|The Tower of the Elephant]]", the title [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]] is surrounded by a garden.

{{quote| "Well, that's Nam,' he said. "Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original."}}

* One of the previous Games locals mentioned in ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' was a veritable Garden of Eden so beautiful most of the Tributes were too surprised to move when the Games started. However, it proved to be one of these soon enough -- everythingenough—everything, from the water to the trees to the scent of the flowers, was poisonous.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Seeds of Doom'', the estate of mad botanist Harrison Chase is turned into one of these as the flora falls under the control of the Krynoid.

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Joacim_Cans:Joacim Cans|Cans]]'s album [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Gates-Cans/dp/B0001Z3HUO Beyond the Gates], contains a track (number 7) with this trope as its title.

* The eponymous garden on the cover of Dimmu Borgir's ''[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20101224085818/http://swedrock.se/img/covers/DimmuBorgir-GodlessSavageGarden.jpg Godless Savage Garden]'' EP.

* The Shoikan Grove from the [[Dragonlance]] ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' setting teems with undead creatures and plant monsters, and gives off a powerful aura of fear that can panic anybody who steps in unprotected.

* Hazlik, one of [[Ravenloft]]'s less-prominent darklords, has grown one of these to defend his residence. Another short [[Ravenloft]] adventure concerned an [[Poisonous Person|ermordenung]] who used a hedge-maze [[Garden of Evil]] to lure victims.

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''--

* On the planet Banshee in the Faraway System of ''[[Deadlands]]: Lost Colony'', fully one-quarter of the largest landmass is filled with a [[Garden of Evil]] aptly named the "Toxic Jungle." Virtually everything there is poisonous to creatures not native to the biome, and it's even home to the odd [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|"Rex"]]. ''Hell on Earth'' didn't get off easy, either: back on Earth, most of the infamously-damp coastal areas in Washington State have become a [[Just for Pun|home-grown]] [[Garden of Evil]], complete with the requisite [[Man-Eating Plant|Man Eating Plants]]

* In ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)|Vampire: The Masquerade]],'' some members of the [[The Grotesque|Nosferatu]] [[Looks Like Orlok|clan]] have taken up gardening fungus. Though these aren't ''necessarily'' lethal, security-conscious Nosferatu can make them so; these mushrooms gardens can be acidic, poisonous, [[Magic Mushroom|hallucinogenic]], [[Fungus Humongous|the size of trees]], and often swarming with any number of the ghouled creatures the Nosferatu like to keep in [[Beneath the Earth|the warrens.]] Occasionally, some of the fungus are actually ''mobile'' as well...

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' gives us the "Black Garden" card, which turns battles into strange fights of attrition. Summoned monsters get their ATK points halved, and a plant token is summoned to the opposite side of the field when a monster is summoned.

* World 7 of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]. 3'' is filled with [[Man-Eating Plant|Piranha Plants]] and their relatives.

** ''[[Castlevania: Lament of Innocence]]'' had a garden but it was mostly on the inside with random plant enemies due to engine limitations.

* Ravel's Maze from ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''.

* The entirety of Planet's surface in ''[[Sid MeiersMeier's Alpha Centauri]]'', depending on your point of view.

* The Alnwick Garden in the UK has a special section that consists entirely of poisonous plants, some of which are common garden plants. They even have a special licence to have coca and marijuana plants on display. Website [https://web.archive.org/web/20120328125327/http://www.alnwickgarden.com/thegarden/the-poison-garden here].

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