- Classical Mythology.
- nymphs, variously given as three to seven in number, who guarded with the dragon Ladon the golden apples that were the wedding gift of Gaia to Hera.
- the garden where the golden apples were grown.
- Islands of the Blessed.
- a collection of poems (1648) by Robert Herrick.
- the daughters of Hesperus, nymphs who kept watch with a dragon over the garden of the golden apples in the Islands of the Blessed
- the gardens themselves
- another name for the Islands of the Blessed
