The Hesperides (Ancient Greek: Ἑσπερίδες) are nymphs in Greek mythology. They look after a peaceful garden in the far west of the world. The garden was famous for containing trees with golden apples. The apples were a wedding gift from Gaia to Hera. The trees were protected by the hundred-headed dragon Ladon. The eleventh labor of Hercules was to steal the apples. The oldest versions say that the Hesperides were the daughters of Nyx, but in other versions they were the daughters of the the titan Atlas, and of Hesperis.
