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14	->'''Salazar:''' So Mr. Kennedy, do you like my garden?\
15	'''Leon:''' I see you've been able to work in some of your twisted taste, here, too.
16	-->-- ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''
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18	A Garden of Evil is a distinctly unpleasant place to be, where [[EverythingTryingToKillYou all forms of life within are poisonous, corrupted, and extremely deadly]]. Often populated by sinister research (scientific or magical) experiments run amok, the garden can also serve as a protective barrier for a villain's lair. This is the plant life of {{Mordor}}. There is probably a HedgeMaze -- quite possibly {{mobile\|Maze}}. The place may be under a {{Curse}}. Very likely to be home to a BotanicalAbomination.
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20	Scale can vary greatly. A common type of DeathWorld [[SingleBiomePlanet consists entirely of this]]. In instances where the garden grows, expect TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. See TheHedgeOfThorns, WhenTreesAttack and LostInTheMaize. PlantMooks, AlienKudzu, a ManEatingPlant and MeatMoss can often be found growing here. No relation to [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} the Garden of Sinners]]. Contrast LastFertileRegion, GardenOfLove, and GardenOfEden (usuallly). And for a more metaphorical interpretation, see WeedingOutImperfections, where "desirable" and "undesirable" people are compared to flowers and weeds.
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27	* ''Literature/AvestaOfBlackAndWhite'': There exists the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace aptly named]] Garden of Bloodshed Baliga which is the residence of a group of beings known as the Man-Murdering Demons. As if the residents of the garden wasn't bad enough, the whole garden itself carries the evil alignment meaning that if you are aligned with good then even the plants will be out to get you.
28	* ''Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'': The manga adaptation has Marluxia lure our heroes into his GardenOfEvil as opposed to going OneWingedAngel as in the game.
29	* ''Manga/KingOfThorn'': The entire setting is one of these: a monster-filled jungle of rapidly growing thorny vines.
30	* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'':
31	** 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 [[HighPressureBlood ejecting fountains of blood]] [[BloodFromTheMouth 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 JustBeforeTheEnd to purify the soil.]]
32	** 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]].
33	* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Death Season Forest had its name for a reason. You see, every fall comes with a cloud of fog that just happens to be toxic enough that three seconds of exposure will stop your heart. With winter comes blizzards of -200 Celsius and freezing winds that rip up the razor blade-like grass of the Forest. During summer, the forest floor disappears under a carpet of lava, and the surface temperature spikes to a degree where being close will give you burns. Finally, there is spring, a relatively 'easy' season where all you have to worry about are hordes of Monsters with a capture level average of 60. Oh, and a Level 5 creature can tear apart modern tanks with their bare hands. So, have fun!
34	* ''Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel'': A promotional poster uses this trope to depict Sakura's SanitySlippage. The garden is beautiful, but walled in, and a black grass-killing poison is oozing towards the blank-eyed girl in the center. [[spoiler:A poster [[{{Triptych}} for the last installment]] depicts her and Shirou leaving the greenhouse, hand-in-hand.]]
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38	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
39	** Downplayed, but both the [[EvilutionaryBiologist Simic Combine]] and the [[PestController Golgari Swarm]] of Ravnica produce these. The Simic Combine's "parks" are open-air labs full of bio-engineered plants and animals, almost all of which are deadly, as they continually experiment with pushing evolution to new heights. The Golgari's rot-farms and dripping jungles are a grosser version, typically full of {{Festering Fung\|us}}i (which are often mobile, aggressive, hallucinogenic, acid-spitting, carnivorous, or any combination thereof), BigCreepyCrawlies, zombies, and combinations thereof.
40	** The Selesnya Conclave [[ZigzaggedTrope subverts it at first glance, but ultimately plays it straight]]. The paradisaical gardens where every inhabitant and creature seemingly lives in harmony will instantly turn on an outsider as one singular angry organism, with [[ElementalEmbodiment the very garden itself coming to life to attack you]] if you prove too resilient.
41	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' 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.
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45	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Poison Ivy tends to constantly be making these to serve as bases for her eco-terroist operations.
46	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': In "The Torture Garden", Judge Death feels inspired by the French novel of the same name to build his own "torture garden", consisting of horrific statues made out of human corpses, vines growing out of rotting brains, and flowers that seep blood.
47	* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': ComicBook/WonderWoman saves an odd crippled CrustyCaretaker who seems nice enough (if abrasive and rude) and who shows her some of the marvelous flowers that he's been able to cultivate in his eerie greenhouse, including unsettling flowers that look like women's faces -- she gets tripped by something he hides and then claims was a withered branch on her way out. He later shows his true colors when he reveals the {{Man Eating Plant}}s which tried to nab her on her first visit.
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51	* The deadly hedge of thorns around Literature/SleepingBeauty's castle.
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55	* The Assassins' Guild in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' is expanded on in the fics of Creator/AAPessimal. The story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5423228/1/Murder-Most-Orrible Murder Most 'Orrible]]'' introduces Doctor Davinia Bellamy, who becomes Botany Teacher at the Guild School. Her preferred means of servicing the needs of the client involves the language of flowers, which inevitably say ''Drop Dead!'' in a variety of elegant ways. Her attitude to gardening involves planting interesting hedgerow and verge plants to mark the boundaries of her property and using pot-plants such as the Apache Hospitality Cactus and a bonsai version of the Pyramid Strangler Vine [[note]]Bonsai is a matter of scale. She has scaled a plant that can grow three hundred feet tall and occupy an area of several hundred square yards down to a more manageable eight feet or so[[/note]] as security systems in her florist shop. Her garden is marked with interesting and decorative border plants such as the Hergenian Ironthorn with its long stilleto thorns, the Astoria Trailing Creeper that deals with things like snails, slugs and rats, Catbite[[note]]A plant that thinks catnip is for wimps[[/note]], Lancre Thistles, and nettles that deliver a more painful rash. The Guild of Thieves warns its members about Bellamy-designed gardens. "Do not go there" sums up the warning.
56	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has the surroundings and innards of Project Pegasus as this, with Doctor Lake, a former employee, describing in loving detail how bad the ''ordinary'' plants are - all RealLife examples of horrifying plant life. The magical and magically altered examples are exponentially worse, with Cordyceps zombies infectious enough to overwhelm Deadpool's monstrously powerful HealingFactor being just the start. And that's not even getting into the things living in it. As Strange hammers home, even in a more or less dormant state, even avoiding the worst, even accounting for the fact that it was scoured of its very worst by [[ComicBook/GreenLantern1941 Alan Scott]], it is ''still'' a magically bioengineered weapons factory of nightmares. This is emphasised by the fact that Scott ''barely'' managed to seal it and had to leave his Lantern behind to keep it shut - the rough equivalent of Thor leaving Mjolnir behind to hold something shut. Ever since, it's been a cautionary tale ''not to mess with magic''. A great deal of this is explained by the fact that the project had been infiltrated by [[spoiler: Nimue]], an extremely skilled Earth-mage who'd been BroughtDownToBadass and whose idea of regaining power involved [[spoiler: creating her own version of the Lantern by cracking open the planet]]. The sheer magical overspill overclocked everything and turned it into a nightmare.
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60	* The Other World's garden in ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}'' becomes one, where the previously-whimsical plants turn on Coraline once the Other World is revealed to be more of a nightmare than a fantasy.
61	* The hedge of thorns conjured by Maleficent in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.
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65	* The ''Film/AeonFlux'' movie features a biotech security system that includes human-detecting razor grass and what appeared to be machine-gun seedpods?
66	* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': There are two. One has a prehensile tongue-like vine that can pull people towards its mouth where it presumably plans to eat them. The vine has enough strength to fold a police car. The second variant are purple flowers that shoot out poisonous barbs.
67	* Isla Nublar from ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' is an example both in [[Literature/JurassicPark the book]] and [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the movie]]: lush, tropical vegetation, well-kept park infrastructure and lots of dinosaurs. Mostly of the carnivorous kind.
68	* Most of ''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. Except "the Cleaners."
69	* ''Film/MinorityReport'' has a ''greenhouse'' of evil, filled with dangerous plants which also move. Subverted in that the owner is a benign but disconnected researcher and one of the hero's temporary allies. Amusingly enough, she also has to supply an antidote to said hero after he gets stung on the neck by one of her prize plants.
70	* ''Film/TwiceToldTales'': In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Giacomo Rappaccini keeps his daughter Beatrice in a garden full of toxic plants. Rappaccini has treated Beatrice with an exotic plant extract that makes [[PoisonousPerson her touch as deadly as that of the plants in the garden]]; he does this to keep her safe from unwanted suitors, but it makes her a prisoner in her own home.
71	* The poppy field in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (which was also in [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the book]]).
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75	* In the ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' novels, the Orange Adept has power over plant life, so uses this trope for defense of the Orange Demesnes.
76	* Young-adult fantasy adventure novel ''Literature/BladeOfThePoisoner]]'' features a deadly garden in the realm of a tyrant obsessed with poisons and entropy.
77	* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'': One of the effects of the Sunbane in ''The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'' is to turn a country into this, every few days (with the intervening days being filled up by desert, rainstorms and pestilence, at random).
78	* In ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'', [[MeaningfulName Briar and his teacher Rosethorn]] have plant magic -- anyplace you happen to piss them off can easily become a Garden of Evil, provided there's any plant life at all -- 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? [[spoiler:She uses the corpses of teenage gang members as fertilizer.]]
79	* Princess Amanita maintains one in ''Literature/DangerouslyEverAfter'', including deadly poisons and explosive grenapes. The book follows her attempt to acquire roses, valued for their thorns.
80	* Derk's garden in ''Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm'' has some elements of this (ex., [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous flowers]]) in its natural state, being the playground of a wizard who specializes in MixAndMatchCritters. When forced to play the role of EvilOverlord for a series of tour groups, he [[MasterOfIllusion disguises it]] to look the part as well.
81	* Much of the Labyrinth from ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'' is like this. The rest is more like {{Mordor}}. ''All of it'' is absolutely deadly.
82	* Probably the ultimate example comes from ''Literature/{{Deathworld}}''. Due to a misunderstanding, the very peculiar wildlife on the titular planet has altered itself to wage war against humanity, changing to the point where even every blade of grass has a venomous claw dangling from it.
83	* ''Literature/DorothyAndTheWizardInOz'' has the Land of the Mangaboos. It appears to be a pleasant underground garden with [[PlantPerson living plants]] described as TheBeautifulElite. But in reality, the race is [[AbsoluteXenophobe xenophobic]], [[WhenTreesAttack violent]] and [[AlwaysChaoticEvil irredeemably evil]], and the party must flee for their lives when the race decides to murder them [[ForTheEvulz for no reason]].
84	* In Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith's "The Garden of Adompha", the King and his evil sorcerer have one such garden walled off in the palace for their own private use, wherein they graft human organs to the plants. Well until the King decides to kill his companion and bury him in the selfsame garden. It doesn't end well.
85	* In ''Literature/TheGenocides'', aliens gradually transform Earth so that their uncanny, tree-like Plants [[SingleBiomePlanet cover the entire land surface]]. [[KillAllHumans Doing away with the human race]] makes this project easier to complete.
86	* ''Literature/TheGiverQuartet'': The forest in ''Literature/GatheringBlue'' and ''Literature/{{Messenger}}'' is sentient and selective of the people it wants passing through. Don't push your luck.
87	* The arena of the 50th Hunger Games in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' 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 -- everything, from the water to the trees to the scent of the flowers, was poisonous.
88	* Octave Mirbeau's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Torture_Garden_(novel) Le Jardin des supplices]]'' (''Literature/TheTortureGarden'') might be a possible candidate for UrExample here, as it was first published in 1899.
89	* In ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', Pi lands on an "island" floating in the Pacific, consisting of algae and trees in symbiosis... [[spoiler:which turns out to be [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]]]]. The scene where he peels away layers of leaves from what he thinks is a fruit, and finds [[spoiler:a human tooth in the middle]], is horrific.
90	* The home of the sea witch of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' is surrounded by hostile seaweed. When the protagonist swims through the first time, she spots the corpse of another mermaid that was captured by the plants and killed.
91	* In ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', the Rosa is this -- without the evil. [[GoodIsNotNice It's in fact a good force capable of destroying the evil and sparing the good]]. Still scares the good guys; Lucian forbids Lindsey to touch [[AndIMustScream the human-faced flowers]].
92	* Probably quite a few gardens in ''Literature/{{Nightside}}''. The best-known is the runaway garden/[[HungryJungle jungle]] in front of the Griphon estate. Some of the places on the other sides of timeslips also count.
93	* "Literature/RappaccinisDaughter" features an early poisonous garden created by a mad scientist -- and [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter his daughter]] is the only one who can survive to walk in it, because she's been engineered to be [[PoisonousPerson just as poisonous as all of the plants]].
94	* ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses'': The Night Princess has a greenhouse of carnivorous plants.
95	* The ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series has a few; among them, there's the Maelmord from ''[[Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy The Wishsong of Shannara]]'', the living forest on Shatterstone in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'', and the living garden protecting the Black Elfstone in ''Literature/FirstKingOfShannara''.
96	* In ''Literature/TheShining'', the garden of the Overlook Hotel has [[MobileMaze intelligent, evil topiary animals that moved]] only when you weren't looking.
97	* ''Literature/TheSisterVerseAndTheTalonsOfRuin'' has this as the Glade's most common incarnations, including a hostile forest of liquid flesh, and an endless, foggy hedge maze covered in blood.
98	* The Garden of the Ziggurat in ''Literature/SpectralStalkers'' is filled with beautiful crystal flowers which are actually sentient, capable of spitting deadly acid at intruders, as well as dangerous Silica Serpents.
99	* ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried'': One character -- after watching a fellow soldier, recently unhinged by seeing his best friend blown to bits by an extremely powerful booby trap, systematically torture an unresisting baby water buffalo by shooting pieces off of it before finally killing it -- explicitly {{invoke\|dTrope}}s the trope.
100	-->''"Well, that's [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar 'Nam]]," he said. "Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original."''
101	* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
102	** In ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' (book and film), the Morgul Vale and the Dead Marshes are exactly such a place, with poisonous flowers, glowing undead pools, etc.
103	** It's not a cultivated garden, but ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' has Nan Dungortheb (the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Valley of Dreadful Death]]), which is the reason why a HiddenElfVillage like Doriath needs powerful warriors.
104	* ''Literature/TrashOfTheCountsFamily'' has the Forest of Darkness, where every day is a fight for survival because [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill you]], plant and animal alike. It's also home to a [[SwampsAreEvil poison swamp]] and is the only place on the continent that has monsters.
105	* In the ''Literature/{{Uglies}}'' world, vast swaths of the (presumed American) wilderness have become a desert, and what isn't desert is taken over by the "white weed". The protagonist is told that the weed is a species of orchid that was very rare and very expensive, and scientists genetically modified the flower to grow faster and healthier. It soon became so invasive that it choked out all other forms of plant life and ruined the soil.
106	%%* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'': The Vineyard of Eyes in ''Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods''.%%Adminisreivia/ZeroContextExample
107	* ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'': The Wood is a forest filled with monsters that carry TheCorruption, Heart Trees that are made from [[PoweredByAForsakenChild kidnapped villagers]], and a GeniusLoci that wants to KillAllHumans.
108	* ''Franchise/Warhammer40000ExpandedUniverse'':
109	** The ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Traitor General'' has the Untill (short for "untillable"). Canopy so thick that night and day are the same, filled with giant insects, including poisonous moths so lethal that just brushing against them can mean horrible, painful death. Despite the hideous danger, it ''is'' still survivable: the [[HiddenElfVillage Nihtgane]] have set up a stable and functioning civilization there, having developed an immunity to the local toxins.
110	** In the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel ''False Gods'', on Davin's moon, the battlefield having been [[WeatherDissonance transformed from a hot, dry forest to foggy marsh]], it also contains hordes of [[ZombieApocalypse walking corpses]]. However, it does get better after the death of the LoadBearingBoss.
111	** In the ''Literature/SpaceWolf'' novel ''Wolf's Honour'', the crops of the [[{{Shadowland}} shadow world]] look like corn, but every leaf has a human face, screaming, and [[ICannotSelfTerminate 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.
112	* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The Blight is a continent-spanning rainforest 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 [[BigBad 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. 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.
113	* [[Literature/JamesBond Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], under the alias "Doctor Shatterhand", has one of these in the grounds of a Japanese castle in ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. It becomes popular as a place for disgraced Japanese to seek an honourable end.
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117	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom 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.
118	** Also "The Screaming Jungle" from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E5TheKeysOfMarinus The Keys of Marinus]]". The forest was biologically altered by Darrius in an experiment on speeding up the growth process of flora. The experiments made the flora move. It also seemed to have been made sentient. The flora could kill individuals by constriction. It was also strong, capable of breaking down walls. The flora emitted a loud screaming noise.
119	* The serial killer in episode 2 of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' buries his victims alive and grows mushrooms on their bodies with the help of sugar-solution IV drips.
120	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' / ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': The Queen of Hearts's living hedge maze, where the walls devour anyone who gets close.
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124	* The eponymous garden on the cover of Dimmu Borgir's ''[[http://www.swedrock.se/img/covers/DimmuBorgir-GodlessSavageGarden.jpg Godless Savage Garden]]'' EP.
125	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
126	* Vocaloid's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVFfeTIWWco Fear Garden.]] Nightmare-inducing.
127	* Music/JohnZorn's album "Torture Garden" (1990) with Naked City references Octave Mirbeau's "The Torture Garden" in its title.
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131	* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Lost Colony'': On the planet Banshee in the Faraway System, fully one-quarter of the largest landmass is filled with a GardenOfEvil 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 "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 home-grown GardenOfEvil, complete with the requisite {{Man Eating Plant}}s.
132	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
133	** ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'': The Shoikan Grove teems with undead creatures and plant monsters, and gives off a powerful aura of fear that can panic anybody who steps in unprotected.
134	** The Abyss has every kind of horrible hellscape imaginable, so of course it has some of these too. Several of the plane's layers are covered in dense jungles, and because this is the Abyss every living thing in them (yes, ''every'' living thing) hates all life and especially you.
135	** ''Elder Evils'': Parts of Ragnorra's worldskin become covered by tangles of overgrown, malformed plant life, heavy with bulbous fruit, many of which were living creatures overwhelmed by surges in positive energy and turned into plants.
136	** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': Hazlik, one of the less-prominent darklords, has grown one of these to defend his residence. Another short ''Ravenloft'' adventure concerned an [[PoisonousPerson ermordenung]] who used a hedge-maze GardenOfEvil to lure victims.
137	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
138	** Each cardinal direction is ruled by a certain element. To the east is the elemental pole of wood, and the farther from the center of the world you get, the more powerful the elemental pole's effect is. Go too far, and plants basically take over reality and do whatever they want.
139	** There are also Gethamane's fungus gardens -- the gardens themselves are fine, and actually vital to the function of the city, but the magic that fuels them got messed up at some point. People who spend too much time there (like, say, the farmers who work in them) slowly become convinced they require {{human sacrifice}}s to keep working. They don't, but there's a lot of [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch accidental deaths on the job that somehow wind up with the victim naked, castrated, and with veins sliced very precisely so the blood will drain out easily]] anyway.
140	* ''Literature/Pathfinder2010'': Overexposures of positive energy, the source of life and growth, can easily turn even barren countryside into thick, tangled jungles of over-fecund growth. The ''Tyrant's Grasp'' adventure path sees the creation of a lot of these when the Whispering Tyrant devises a weapon that obliterates targets in explosions of positive energy, seeding Lastwall with thickets of tangled vegetable growth, carnivorous plants and hideously mutated animals. The worst of these spots is the one created when he blasted his way free of his prison -- named Gallowgarden, the resulting jungle of slimy, writhing vines, tumorous plants, moaning trees and misshapen beasts stands in stark contrast to the barren and undead-haunted landscape of the rest of the lich's realm, but is no less deadly to visit.
141	* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'': The entirety of [[HungryJungle Venus]] in is terrifying. If the wildlife doesn't get you, the plant life will. If the plant life doesn't get you, the diseases will. If the diseases don't get you, the terrain and weather will probably do you in.
142	* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'':
143	** Some members of the [[TheGrotesque Nosferatu]] [[LooksLikeOrlok 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, [[MagicMushroom hallucinogenic]], [[FungusHumongous the size of trees]], and often swarming with any number of the ghouled creatures the Nosferatu like to keep in [[BeneathTheEarth the warrens.]] Occasionally, some of the fungus are actually ''mobile'' as well...
144	** The Lasombra warlord Caridad de Flores has one of her own in ''Mexico by Night,'' easily recognized by the weird silver-and-black flowers sprouting from the corpses of Caridad's victims. This garden is also a drug crop producing an exotic variety of highly addictive plantlife, and many of the garden's inhabitants (living or dead) are actually addicts who turned up for a fix one night and never left.
145	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
146	** The realm of the Chaos God [[AffablyEvil Nurgle]] is said to look like a rotting garden filled with various poisonous plants and nasty diseases.
147	** The [[DeathWorld entire planet]] of Catachan is a (possibly sentient) HungryJungle so dangerous surviving past ten is an achievement. Includes wildlife like carnivorous plants that eat people, scorpions the size of a bus, and a toad that, when disturbed, explodes. ''With a kilometer-wide blast radius.''
148	** ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'': The adventure "Soul Reaver" features a deathworld garden in the spires of the Dark Eldar nobles. They occasionally run games where slaves are released into the garden and invariably get killed by the deadly plants. The players can enter the garden themselves to [[spoiler:use the secret entrance to the Archon's palace hidden there]].
149	** In the realm of Slaanesh, the fifth circle to their palace is a garden filled with beautiful flowers with large thorns. Anyone caught in them is forever tangled by the thorns.
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153	* The theme of Ride/BuschGardens' Theatre/HowlOScream event in 2011 and 2012, "The Dark Side of the Gardens", revolved around a creepy supernatural garden filled with evil plants and many hordes of zombies.
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157	* Episode Four (The Truth) of ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' has this, when Alan is escaping from the Cauldron Lake Lodge. Part of that escape involves making your way through a garden (complete with hedge maze) filled with Taken, since the direct route to Alan's friend Barry (and Barry's car) is blocked by a locked gate.
158	* ''[[VideoGame/Ashes2063 Ashes: Afterglow]]'' has the J. G. Ballard Botanical Gardens in the Badlands. in the Old World it was just a normal botanical garden, but after it, radiation and water contamination turned the sealed dome into a HungryJungle full of highly aggressive PlantMooks.
159	* Dark Eden from ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain'' is an unnatural domed garden created in the northern reaches of Nosgoth by three of its corrupted Guardians as a playground for their experimentations, referred to by Kain as "a garden of horrors, seeded with sick perversion of nature’s design." It's even dangerous to a vampire, as almost everything there has poisonous green blood that Kain can't drink.
160	* In ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', the hedge maze is a garden that is full of vines that pull you into the deadly bushes. Some even ''[[StrippedToTheBone rip your entire skeleton off your body]]!''
161	* Many ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games feature a garden/courtyard level.
162	** The Garden of Madness from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' features creepy Lovecraftian plants in the background and plant-based monsters in the foreground. There's even a Skeleton Gardener to tend all of them.
163	** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' featured a corrupted garden as part of the Versailles Palace stage. There's even a fountain that turns from water to blood as you walk through it.
164	** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' had a garden but it was mostly on the inside with random plant enemies due to engine limitations.
165	** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' had the Underground Garden - but only on the NoExportForYou Sega Saturn version.
166	* The whole surface world of ''VideoGame/CavesOfQud'' qualifies. As a post-apocalyptic game inspired by ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'', you naturally expect the ruins to be infested with mutants and remnant killbots. But even Qud's jungles and caves are full of life (plant and animal both) who want to do bad things to you. The Banana Grove in particular is notorious for having trees that will eat you alive where you stand hidden casually next to the actual fruit trees.
167	* The finale of vanilla ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'' takes place in the Black Garden, a PlaceBeforeTime where the game's two main deities, the Gardener and the Winnower, played a version of ConwaysGameOfLife using flowers, eventually the Gardener became tired of the game, due to the endless endgame repeating patterns and decided to add them both as a new rule, birthing the universe as we know it. It was subsequentially taken over by [[MechanicalAbomination the Vex]]. Being in the Black Garden will cause everything to grow at abnormal rates, be that fingernails, hair, or the many many plants that inhabit the place, it is removed from normal time-space and is said that there time flows backwards, it now has been taken over by endless stretches of the Vex's hyper-complex machinery that has been overgrown with vines, grasses, and red flowers. And at the heart of it is [[EldritchAbomination the Black Heart]], a fragment of [[GreaterScopeVillain The Darkness]] that a the Vex could not comprehend, which let to a now considered heretical subsect of their ranks, know as the Sol Divisive and decided to worship as a god. It has also appeared many other times in the games since, both in strikes in the original Destiny and the Garden of Salvation raid in it's sequel.
168	* Vault 22 in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is over-run by mutated plants. One of the music pieces in this area is appropriately titled "Garden of Evil".
169	%%* Almost every ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has at least one of these.
170	* The Plant Stages in the ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' series.
171	* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has Greenpath, an overgrown ruin that has [[TheHedgeOfThorns hedges of thorns]] and [[HollywoodAcid pools of bubbling acid]] in many parts, and is populated by [[EverythingTryingToKillYou various nasties]] [[MobileShrubbery hiding in the bushes]]. Nearby is the Queen's Gardens, which since the fall of Hallownest have been overgrown by similar thorny vines and populated by the Mantis Traitors, who are ZombieInfectee members of their tribe that have been exiled from the Mantis Village in Fungal Wastes.
172	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has a lot of these.
173	** The Naughty Sorceress' hedge maze.
174	** The Landscaper's Lair, temporarily available from an item sold at Uncle P's antiques, is a well-tended garden... that's tended by a demon and is full of killer lawn gnomes.
175	** The Red Queen's Garden, if you can find and go down the rabbit hole in the Nearby Plains.
176	* Peach's Castle Garden, a late-game dungeon in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', is the exterior area of Peach's Castle after being taken over by [[BigBad Fawful]]. Mario and Luigi are forced to navigate the courtyard and find an entrance to the castle itself while dealing with monsters and puzzles along the way.
177	%%* Ravel's Maze from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''.
178	* The Prince praises the beauty of the Island Of Time's gardens in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' and compares them to those of his homeland, but is quick to point out "However the gardens of Persia are not home to monsters".
179	* The garden of Castle Salazar in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', which was a hedgemaze full of mutant, ''Thing''-inspired wolves called Colmillos.
180	* In ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'', [[spoiler: Iris Sepperin's second stage]] is one of these, and to make matters worse, [[spoiler:it has gravity flip traps.]]
181	* The entirety of Planet's surface in ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', depending on your point of view.
182	* ''VideoGame/SecretOfEvermore'''s final level, Omnitopia, features a Greenhouse of Evil containing a particularly nasty monster appropriately named the "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Flowering Death]]." This fiend is near-invincible, and [[OneHitKill inflicts 999 damage]] on the hero should he be unfortunate enough to get too close when the greenhouse lights are on.
183	* World 7 of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' is filled with [[ManEatingPlant Piranha Plants]] and their relatives.
184	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the Underground Jungle (and to an extent, the Corruption Biome) which are filled with plantlife and animals that are actively trying to horribly murder you, given the chance.
185	* The penultimate stage where you confront Morgana in ''VideoGame/WildBlood'' is her garden, and it's infested with assorted monsters as well as PlantMooks.
186	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
187	** About a dozen different areas qualify, but the Eastern Plaguelands are probably the best example; a whole zone infested with TheUndead and covered in [[OminousFog orange mist]], where most wildlife is either dying or diseased and the plants appear to be mutating into [[FungusHumongous giant fungi]].
188	** The east wing of Dire Maul is an old elvish garden that's become tainted by the demons who since moved in, and where all the plants will now try to strangle or poison you.
189	** In a more Garden-y variety, you also have The Botanica from ''The Burning Crusade'', essentially a giant greenhouse full of dangerous botanical experiments run rampant, and Freya's Conservatory from ''Wrath of the Lich King''.
190	** The whole of Gorgrond is an enormous jungle filled with mutated plants and a race of PlantPeople mad geneticists, complete with a marsh of cursed mushrooms with MindControl powers. The worst part is the Everbloom, an outdoor "dungeon" where the party races to stop a Genesaur from escaping through a portal into Stormwind.
191	** Northern Val'sharah in the Broken Isles is a (literally) Nightmarish twisted jungle of horrible creatures spilling out from the Legion invading the Emerald Dream. The Darkheart Thicket and the Emerald Nightmare are the corresponding dungeon and raid.
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195	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Pamela Isley's privately owned greenhouse in her debut episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison."]] It features a TrapDoor hidden pit of overgrown, razor sharp cacti and a [[ManEatingPlant giant, carnivorous flytrap]] with python strength [[VineTentacles tendrils]] it uses to ensnare it's prey.
196	* In ''WesternAnimation/RosePetalPlace'', Nastina's side of the garden is thorny and nasty, and her castle is a tin can fortress.
197	* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode [[Recap/SouthParkS3E1RainforestSchmainforest "Rainforest Shmainforest"]] portrayed the jungles of Costa Rica as this. It leads the boys to decide that [[SpoofAesop maybe deforestation isn't so bad after all]].
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201	* Australia.
202	** To be more precise, Australia's brush is home to extraordinarily dangerous venomous animals, including the death adder, the Sydney Funnelweb spider, bulldog ants, and green ants, with the very least of them being merely agonizingly painful. In particular, green ants often infest suburban lawns, thereby making mowing the grass life-threatening.
203	** Even worse are the Indonesian-Australian stinging nettles of the genus ''Dendrocnide,'' often known as "stinging trees," or "stingers." All three species have large leaves covered with venomous, silica-tipped stinging hairs that can cause painful rashes that can sometimes last for months. There are numerous cases of humans, dogs and horses dying from being stung by the giant stinging tree and gympie stinger species.
204	* Ilha da Queimada Grande, home to five of the most venomous snakes in the world ''per square meter''.
205	* 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 [[http://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden here]]. The gate leading to the Poison Gardens carries a simple message in large letters "'''These Plants can Kill'''". And boy do they mean it.
206	* Blackberry hedges. Blackberries are great, clipping them is not...
207	** Especially when they are overgrown with stinging nettles after some years of neglect.
208	* Poison ivy can be quite pretty in season, when its reddish hues are clearest, and spreads quickly into disturbed habitats such as neglected gardens.
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