History Main / GardenOfEvil

* ''LightNovel/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.

* Young-adult fantasy adventure novel ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Poisoner-Douglas-Hill/dp/0553277170/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200650743&sr=8-1 Blade of the Poisoner]]'' features a deadly garden in the realm of a tyrant obsessed with poisons and entropy.

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

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Poison Ivy tends to constantly be making these for bases of operations.

** In the realm of Slaanesh, the fifth circle to his palace is a garden filled with beautiful flowers with large thorns. Anyone caught in them is forever tangled by the thorns.

** The realm of the Chaos God Nurgle is said to look like a rotting garden filled with various poisonous plants and nasty diseases.

* In ''LightNovel/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. And 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.
* The ''Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' manga adaptation has Marluxia lure our heroes into his GardenOfEvil as opposed to going OneWingedAngel as in the game.
* The entire setting of ''Manga/KingOfThorn'' is one of these: a monster-filled jungle of rapidly growing thorny vines.
* In ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' 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.]]
** 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.]]
* Death Season Forest from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' 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!
* A promotional poster for ''Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel'' 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.]]

* ''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 [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs "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 [[JustForPun home-grown]] GardenOfEvil, complete with the requisite {{Man Eating Plant}}s.

->'''Salazar''': So Mr. Kennedy, do you like my garden?
->'''Leon:''' I see you've been able to work in some of your twisted taste, here, too.

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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': ComicBook/PoisonIvy tends to constantly be making these for bases of operations.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': Franchise/WonderWoman saves an odd crippled CrustyCaretaker who seems nice enough--if abrasive and rude--who shows her some of the marvelous flowers he's been able to cultivate in his eerie greenhouse, including unsettling flowers that look like women's faces, and 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.

* In Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' books, [[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.]]
* Princess Amanita maintains one in ''Dangerously Ever After'' including deadly poisons and explosive grenapes. The book follows her attempt to acquire roses, valued for their thorns.
* 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.

* Probably the ultimate example would be in Creator/HarryHarrison's novel ''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.

* 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.
* In Creator/DanAbnett's Literature/GauntsGhosts 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 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.
* The forest in ''Gathering Blue'' and ''Messenger'', the sequels to ''Literature/TheGiver'', is sentient and selective of the people it wants passing through. Don't push your luck.
* In Creator/ThomasMDisch's ''The Genocides'', 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.
* The Vineyard Of Eyes in ''[[Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles Gregor and The Curse of the Warmbloods]]''.
* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} 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]].
** But it does get better after the death of the LoadBearingBoss.

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

* In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' (book and film), the Morgul Vale and the Dead Marshes are exactly such a place, with poisonous flowers, glowing undead pools, etc.
** It's not a cultivated garden, but ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' has Nan Dungortheb (the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Valley of Dreadful Death]]), which is the reason a HiddenElfVillage like Doriath needed powerful warriors.
* In Teresa Frohock's ''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]].
* Probably quite a few gardens in ''{{Literature/Nightside}}''. Best known - runaway garden/[[HungryJungle jungle]] in front of Griphon estate. Also some of the places on the other sides of timeslips.
* "Literature/RappaccinisDaughter" features an early poisonous garden created by a mad scientist -- 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.
* One of the effects of the Sunbane in ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant 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.)
* Creator/TerryBrooks has written a few; among them, there's the Maelmord from ''The Wishsong of Literature/{{Shannara}}'', the living forest on Shatterstone in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'', and the living garden protecting the Black Elfstone in ''First King Of Shannara''.

* In Lee Lightner's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' 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.
* The Garden of the Ziggurat in ''Literature/SpectralStalkers''. It's filled with beautiful crystal flowers which are actually sentient, capable of spitting deadly acid at intruders, as well as dangerous Silica Serpents.
* In "Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried" by Tim O'Brien 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 invokes the trope.
-->"Well, that's Nam,' he said. "Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original."
* ''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.
* 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.
* ''{{Literature/Uprooted}}'' has The Wood, a forest filled with monsters that carry TheCorruption, Heart Trees that are made from [[PoweredByAForsakenChild kidnapped villagers]], and a GeniusLoci that wants to KillAllHumans.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' 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 [[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.\\
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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.
* [[BlofeldPloy Ernst Stavro Blofeld]], under the alias "Doctor Shatterhand", has one of these in the grounds of a Japanese castle in the ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. It becomes popular as a place for disgraced Japanese to seek an honourable end.

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.

* 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 standing casually next to the actual fruit trees.

* 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.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': The Queen of Hearts's living hedge maze, which also features in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland''.

Scale can vary greatly. A common type of DeathWorld [[SingleBiomePlanet consists entirely of this]]. In instances where the garden grows, expect TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. See TheLostWoods, 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).

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''--

%%* Dark Eden from ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain''

* ''Literature/{{Pathfinder}}'': 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.

* Princess Amanita maintains one in ''Dangerously Ever After'' including deadly poisons and explosive grenades. The book follows her attempt to acquire roses, valued for their thorns.

* Princess Amanita maintains one in '''Dangerously Ever After''' including deadly poisons and explosive grenades. The book follows her attempt to acquire roses, valued for their thorns.

* One of the previous Games locals mentioned 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.

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* 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.
** Also "The Screaming Jungle" from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E5TheKeysOfMarinus The Keys of Marinus]]".