*** June 2017 Challenge: Re-invent the Hanging Gardens ***

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Aside from being awesome when you built it in some of the Civilization games (it gave you extra food or something, if I recall), the Hanging Gardens is just a cool idea all the way around. Mouse came up with this month's Challenge, so praise unto her. TheHoarseWhisperer had a good suggestion for it too:

However, if everyone just maps a terraced pyramid with plants, then it might be a little dull. Maybe people could be encouraged to 'reinvent' the Hanging Gardens: that might make it more exciting. Perhaps there'll even be literally hanging gardens...

So here's the challenge: Your mission is to take the idea of a Hanging Garden/Wonder of the World and re-invent it. You can always map what you think the literal Hanging Gardens of Babylon might have looked like, but you can also go crazy and map a miles-high wizard's citadel drenched in hanging plants, or a floating rock with the gardens hanging down to the ground, or a canyon with the gardens planted on the walls. Whatever your fertile (get it?) imaginations can come up with, really.

This month's challenge will run until approximately 9PM Pacific time, on the evening of Friday, June 30th. You might even get some extra time, because I have to do inventory at work that night (yay!) and may not get home until very late.

Title your threads like so: June 2017 Challenge: <your title here>

Also don't forget to put the WIP tag in front of all your work-in-progress images. There's a button for the tag in the tool bar, or you can type it in manually, like this: ### Latest WIP ###

Voting will last three days, after which the winner will get a brand-spankin' new Golden Compass. Good luck, Gardeners!