Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Legends

The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's garden in the west, where there is a single tree on which golden apples grow. The apples were planted from the fruit branches that Gaea gave to her as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally plucked from it themselves. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard. The golden apples were called the "Apples of Immortality", and it was believed that whoever ate of them will become immortal. The grass shimmered with silvery evening light, and the flowers were such brilliant colors they almost glowed in the dark. Stepping stones of polished black marble led round either side of a five-storey-tall apple tree, every bough glittering with golden apples of immortality.