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Persephone's Garden is a garden owned by Persephone, filled with different kinds of her favourite plants and flowers. It was a gift from her husband Hades. The most prominent fruit there is the pomegranate, which makes the consumer stay in, go or return to the Underworld.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]

The Lightning Thief[]

Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, and Annabeth Chase go through the garden whilst on their way to Hades' Palace on their quest. Grover is really tempted to eat a big juicy pomegranate due to its strong tart smell, even though Annabeth warned him to keep walking through the garden, but fortunately Percy pulls him away.

The Demigod Files[]

The Sword of Hades[]

Percy, Thalia, and Nico di Angelo were assembled together and fell down through a hole to the Underworld. After journeying and making it to Hades' palace, they walked through Persephone's garden.

The Heroes of Olympus[]

The Mark of Athena[]

In Percy's dream, Nico is seen trapped in a bronze jar by Otis and Ephialtes. Percy sees five pomegranate seeds by Nico's feet which Nico's half sister, Hazel Levesque, confirms are from the garden of their step-mother Persephone.

The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure[]

In exchange for Menoetes not telling Hades about their quest, Nico and Will reluctantly agree to steal a pomegranate from the garden which Nico admits is one of his favorite places. Sneaking in, they discover that only Will can touch the fruit and steal three before they are caught by Persephone. After freezing Nico in place, the goddess talks with Will and uses one of her flowers to show the young demigod that he has darkness inside of him as well as light. Requesting that Will keep their conversation to himself, the goddess allows Will to take the fruit as a gift.

Later, when Nico tells Will that the Underworld isn't evil, that it's just death, Will recalls Persephone and the garden which was the most picturesque thing that he's ever seen.

Appearance[]

According to Percy Jackson, Persephone's Garden was the strangest garden he had ever seen while Will Solace calls it the most picturesque thing that he's ever seen. The air was cool and damp. A brook wended through the middle of the garden. There are luminous plants that grow without sunlight, such as beautiful subterranean trees glow in the dark and white birch trees soaring into the air like frozen ghosts, along with orange blossoms that glowed neon bright in the dark. There are also poisonous scrubs and multi-colored mushrooms. In the center is an orchard of pomegranate trees, its fruit has an overwhelmingly sweet tart smell. Nico di Angelo is unable to touch the fruit which can't harm him as a son of Hades. As a result, Nico and Will conclude that only Persephone or potential victims of the pomegranates can actually touch them. Once the pomegranates are out of the garden, Nico is able to touch them.

Seemingly trying to compensate the lack of normal flowers, there are precious jewels, such as clumps of raw diamonds and piles of rubies as big as an human adult's fist. There are also crystal trees and flower beds overflowed with golden plants and gemstones. The paths are sculpted with rubies and topaz. The light from the plants was reflected off the jewels. Medusa's garden statues of petrified children, satyrs, and centaurs stand here and there and smiling grotesquely. Skeletal trees grow from marble basins, and flowers bloom blood-red and ghost white.

A dark veranda overlooks the garden with a silver throne, a table, and a shadow fountain in the corner. A pair of thrones, one bone and one silver, sat on the balcony with a view of the Fields of Asphodel. A breakfast table with flower arrangements also sits on the balcony.

Plants[]

Underworld
Underworld: DOA Recording Studios | Doors of Death | Door of Orpheus | Elysium | Erebos | Fields of Asphodel | Fields of Punishment | Hades' Palace | Isles of the Blest | Judgment Pavilion | Persephone's Garden
Rivers: Cocytus | Phlegethon | Styx | Lethe | Acheron
Tartarus: Mansion of Night | Hermes' Shrine | Chaos | Regeneration Pod
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