[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

CLICK ON SEMIRAMUS AND FRIEND ASCENDING THE STAIRS TO RETURN TO THE JUNE 10- 16 2023 WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD!

Pollard's F/R profile page is the location of his Prepper links and Data Base and contains the Gardening Resource files. Click on the Open Book in the picture to link to his homepage!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Queen Semiramis may have been responsible for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. (Attributed to her but may actually have been in Ninevah, but given the subject of the thread, fiving her the heavy benefit of the doubt!) I suppose she is technically the Landscape Architect, but she was undoubtedly a woman!

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

"There are two equally credible theories about who build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, they are assumed to be the work either of semilegendary Queen Sammu-ramat (Greek Semiramis), the Assyrian queen who reigned from 810 to 783 BC, or of King Nebuchadrezzar II, the king of the Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BC – 562 BC. Though there are no compelling arguments about the credibility of any of the assumptions, the hanging Gardens of Babylon are often called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis."

Imaginary view of the gardens!

Historical And Mythical Monuments Would Look Like In Present Day If They Survived

(The modern Iraqi city in the back ground seems more imaginary to me!)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks, Pete! Great addition this week! :)