Editing Garden

{{Hatnote|For the King of the Reach, see [[Gordan I Gardener]]. For Essosi brothels, see [[Pleasure house|pleasure gardens]]. For the ''Game of Thrones'' episode, see [[Garden of Bones (TV)]].''}}

[[File:Joshua Cairosvarysbajaredessevilla.jpg|thumb|450px|right|[[Varys]] visits a wealthy villa in [[Dorne]], by Joshua Cairós © Fantasy Flight Games]]

'''Gardens''' are cultivated spaces in the [[known world]].

==Cultures==
[[File:Cristi balanescu houseofthorns.jpg|thumb|450px|right|[[Margaery Tyrell]] in a garden in [[Highgarden]], by Cristi Balanescu © Fantasy Flight Games]]
All sectors of society are known to keep gardens, such as the [[smallfolk]] who keep homely and functional cottage gardens,{{Ref|ACOK|14}} and nobles who may have more extravagant gardens. Some gardens are kept for pleasure, sustenance, or both, with a mixture of ornamental and edible plants.{{Ref|ADWD|1}}{{Ref|ADWD|8}} Attractive fruit trees, such as cherry{{Ref|ADWD|1}} and lemon,{{Ref|ADWD|50}} are also sometimes a feature of gardens.{{Ref|ADWD|1}} Food can be grown in a glass garden (real-world [[w:Greenhouse|greenhouse]]) in [[winter]].{{Ref|ADWD|35}}

Many individuals draw comfort from spending time in gardens.{{Ref|AGOT|2}}{{Ref|ASOS|71}}{{Ref|ADWD|38}} 

[[Godswood]]s have garden features. Many godswoods still found in the south now serve as secular gardens.{{Ref|AGOT|2}}

==Gardens of Westeros== 
===Riverlands===
The [[sept]] at [[Riverrun]] is a seven-sided sandstone building amidst the gardens of the late [[Minisa Tully]]. The [[godswood]] at Riverrun is a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sing from hidden nests, and the air is spicy with the scent of flowers.{{Ref|AGOT|2}}

There is a vegetable garden behind the sept on the [[Quiet Isle]].{{Ref|AFFC|31}}

Little villages in the eastern [[riverlands]] can have flourishing gardens during times of peace.{{Ref|AFFC|4}}  

===Vale of Arryn===
The [[Eyrie]]'s seven towers encircle a garden, which had been meant as a godswood, but no [[weirwood]] [[heart tree]] would take root in the stony soil.{{Ref|ASOS|80}} The garden, which is overlooked by Lady [[Lysa Arryn]]'s apartments, instead contains grass, shrubbery, and a woman's statue, located at its center. The statue depicts [[Alyssa Arryn]].{{Ref|AGOT|40}}

===Crownlands===
The [[Great Sept of Baelor]] in [[King's Landing]] has large gardens capable of holding hundreds surrounding it.{{Ref|ADWD|32}} [[Myrcella Baratheon]] has a garden at the [[Red Keep]].{{Ref|AGOT|57}}

The garden in [[Dragonstone]] is called [[Aegon's Garden]]. Within, grow tall dark trees, wild roses, towering thorny hedges, and cranberries. The garden has a pleasant piney scent.{{Ref|ASOS|10}}

===North===
In [[Winterfell]], the [[Glass Gardens]] are greenhouses heated by natural hot springs, turning them into a place of moist warmth, thereby keeping the earth from freezing.{{Ref|AGOT|6}} They are used to grow fruits, vegetables and flowers. Inside the glass gardens, it is always like the hottest day of summer.{{Ref|ASOS|80}} The rare [[winter rose]] is said to be the most beautiful of the flowers grown in the glass gardens of [[Winterfell]].{{Ref|ACOK|51}} The glass gardens have a warm earthy smell.{{Ref|AFFC|22}}

At the [[Wall]], [[Castle Black]] has a vegetable garden.{{Ref|ASOS|55}} Some [[free folk]] also keep vegetable gardens [[beyond the Wall]].{{Ref|ADWD|Prologue}}

===Westerlands===
[[Casterly Rock]] contains gardens.{{Ref|TWOIAF|The Westerlands: Casterly Rock}}

===Reach===
[[Garth Greenhand]], the mythical [[High King of the First Men|High King]] of the [[First Men]], supposedly made the land bloom.{{Ref|AGOT|Appendix}}{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Garth Greenhand}}

Gardens, arbors, pools, fountains, courtyards, and man-made waterfalls surround the keeps of [[Highgarden]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Reach: Highgarden}}

The [[Seven Shrines]] in [[Oldtown]] have gardens.{{Ref|AFFC|Prologue}}

===Dorne===
The [[Water Gardens]] are a retreat for [[House Martell]];{{Ref|ADWD|38}} they are Prince [[Doran Martell]]'s favorite place in the world.{{Ref|ADWD|38}} 

==Gardens of Essos and Beyond==
===Pentos===
[[File:Mariusz Gandzell Illyros estateII.png|thumb|400px|right|Blooming cherry trees at [[Illyrio's manse]] in [[Pentos]], by Mariusz Gandzel © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The gardens behind [[Illyrio's manse]] are extensive.{{Ref|ADWD|1}} Six cherry trees surround a [[marble]] pool in the front.{{Ref|ADWD|1}} Garlic grows in his gardens, as well as a [[poison]]ous variety of [[Mushroom (fungi)|mushroom]] found in a garden by [[Tyrion Lannister]].{{Ref|ADWD|1}}

===Braavos===
There are no trees to be found within [[Braavos]] except in the courts and gardens of the mighty.{{Ref|AFFC|26}} The [[Gardens of Gelenei]] is a temple in the city; though it is not stated if there are gardens there, there is a gilded tree a hundred feet high with leaves of hammered silver.{{Ref|ADWD|64}}

===Lys===
Enslaved [[prostitutes]] serve at the [[pleasure gardens]] of [[Lys]].{{ref|TWOIAF|The Free Cities: Lys}}

===Rhoynar===
In [[Ghoyan Drohe]], the ruined city in the [[Velvet Hills]], a few people still remain amidst the squalor, tending little gardens amongst the weeds.{{Ref|ADWD|8}}

[[Sarhoy]] had saltwater gardens before its destruction in the [[Second Spice War]].{{ref|TWOIAF|Ancient History: Ten Thousand Ships}}

The Palace of Love in [[Chroyane]], now called the [[Palace of Sorrow]], once had gardens bright with flowers and fountains sparkling golden in the [[sun]].{{Ref|ADWD|18}} 

===Meereen===
[[Queen's apartments (Great Pyramid)|Private chambers]] are in the lofty apex of the [[Great Pyramid]] on the highest step. The chambers are surrounded by terrace garden with greenery and fragrant pools.{{Ref|ADWD|36}} The [[Audience chamber (Great Pyramid)|audience chamber]] of the Great Pyramid has its own terrace. The lower terrace and its garden includes [[lemon]] trees and night-blooming flowers.{{Ref|ADWD|50}}

===Qarth===
In [[Qarth]], the palace of [[Xaro Xhoan Daxos]] has gardens full of fragrant lavender and mint, a marble bathing pool stocked with tiny golden fish, a scrying tower, and [[warlock]]'s maze.{{Ref|ACOK|27}} The city also has the [[Garden of Gehane]].{{Ref|ACOK|63}}

===Naath===
The family of [[Missandei]] had a garden in [[Naath]].{{Ref|ADWD|11}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Clash of Kings''===
In [[Vaes Tolorro]], [[Daenerys Targaryen]] puts [[Rakharo]] in charge of pulling up the plaza in an effort to turn it into a garden.{{Ref|ACOK|12}} Later at the [[House of the Undying]] in [[Qarth]], [[Pyat Pree]] falsely tells Daenerys her visit is over, and to follow him into a garden.{{Ref|ACOK|27}} After the destruction of the House of the Undying, [[ghost grass]] is found growing in the [[Garden of Gehane]].{{Ref|ACOK|63}}

North along the eastern side of [[Gods Eye river|the river]] running south from the [[Gods Eye]], [[Yoren]] and his men come across an abandoned cottage. [[Tarber]] finds a garden in the backyard where they pull some onions and radishes.{{Ref|ACOK|14}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[Arya Stark]], [[Gendry]], and [[Hot Pie]] encounter the [[brotherhood without banners]] at the cottage of dead [[Old Pate]]. His cottage is burned and his garden overgrown.{{Ref|ASOS|13}}

[[Edric Storm]] plays [[monsters-and-maidens]] with [[Shireen Baratheon]] and [[Patchface]] at [[Aegon's Garden]] in [[Dragonstone]].{{Ref|ASOS|10}}

Missandei finds Daenerys in the terrace garden of the [[Great Pyramid]] in [[Meereen]]. Dany has the girl promise to never lie to her, to never betray her.{{Ref|ASOS|71}} Daenerys draws great solace from her garden.{{Ref|ASOS|71}}

===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Cersei Lannister]] states that after the war she means to build a new palace beyond the [[Blackwater Rush]]; in a dream she sees the palace surrounded by woods and gardens.{{Ref|AFFC|12}}

Cersei is appalled to hear and see that hundreds of [[sparrows]] are encamped in the gardens of the [[Great Sept of Baelor]].{{Ref|AFFC|28}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''=== 
[[Varamyr Sixskins]] recalls that a dozen villages [[beyond the Wall]] paid him a kind of homage; offering, among other things, fruit from their orchards and vegetables from their gardens.{{Ref|ADWD|Prologue}} 

Daenerys entertains the representatives from [[Yunkai]] in the [[Audience chamber (Great Pyramid)|audience chamber]] of the [[Great Pyramid]] and its terrace.{{Ref|ADWD|50}}

==References==
{{References|2}}

[[Category:Gardens| ]]
[[Category:Culture]]