floating garden

floating garden
noun
: a planting on soil buoyed up (as on the surface of a lake) by rafts of interlaced branches or other floating support found chiefly in the Mexico City area and parts of Kashmir

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floating garden,
an artificially made island that floats on the surface of a lake and consists of a long strip of woven rushes covered with mud and weeds upon which vegetables and flowers are grown.

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