
The "Welcome to Gardenia" sign in Season 1.

The "Welcome to Gardenia" sign in Season 4.
Gardenia is the hometown of Bloom, Roxy, Mitzi, Macy, Mike, Vanessa, Klaus and Morgana.
In the first three seasons of Winx Club, Gardenia made few appearances but became the main setting in Season 4 as the Winx went there to protect Roxy, the last fairy on Earth. Gardenia becomes a minor setting again in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons. Gardenia is also a major setting for both seasons World of Winx.
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Overview
Gardenia is a town located on the coast of the United States on planet Earth.
An industrial or port area in Gardenia with a number of warehouses was seen in Season 4[1][2][3], and the residential areas of Gardenia are separated from the town center by a bay or river mouth across which there is a bridge which connects the two parts of the town[4][5].
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Pre-Series

Gardenia at sunrise.
When the realm of Domino was destroyed by the Ancestral Witches sixteen years before the series began, Princess Bloom, the Keeper of the Dragon's Flame, was sent to Gardenia by her older sister Daphne to keep her safe from the Ancestral Witches as they would be unable to sense her there, due to all of the magic on Earth having been gone for centuries[6][7]. Bloom was transported inside a burning building, where the flames protected her until Mike found her, and he and his wife Vanessa adopted her[8].
Around the same time, Morgana, the Earth Fairy High Queen, left Tir Nan Og to live with humans desiring to be special without magic. She met Klaus in Gardenia, and the two got married and later had a daughter named Roxy. Morgana then decided to give up her throne and move to Gardenia for good, however, the Wizards of the Black Circle found and captured her. Despite putting up a desperate fight, Morgana and the remaining Earth Fairies were captured and trapped on Tir Nan Og. Since Roxy was too young to reveal any of her magical capabilities, the Wizards never went after her, but they still managed to erase all memories of Morgana from the minds of people who knew her[9].
For many years, Bloom, Roxy, and many of Gardenia's residents led normal and relatively quiet lives.
Seasons

Drawing of Gardenia by Bloom
Gardenia appears in the very beginning of series. As Bloom is going out to the park with Kiko, they eventually run across Stella, fighting Knut and some of his ghouls. Bloom discovers she has magical powers and partly helps Stella to defeat monsters[10].
Stella rests at Bloom's home and Bloom discovers from her that she is a fairy. Mike doesn't believe them and almost calls an ambulance for Stella, but Stella turns the phone into vegetables. Knut, now with a Hunting Troll, returns to find Stella and they break into Bloom's home, but soon the Specialists appear and Knut escapes[10].

Gardenia's Park
Bloom later returns to Gardenia during her holidays to help her mother with her Flower Shop. After discovering that two men who were about to become Vanessa's business partners were trying to trick Vanessa into selling her shop to them to build a supermarket there instead, Bloom tells this to her and Vanessa tells them that she has changed her mind and no longer wants to do business with them, but then these men start vandalizing her shop, even going far enough to burn it in the end. Bloom goes in and sees visions of Mike finding a baby from the fire, but her visions disappear when a man is calling for help. She saves him and it turns out he was working for those men who were vandalizing Vanessa's shop. Later Bloom discovers that baby she saw was her and that Mike and Vanessa were not her biological parents[8].
Bloom returns to Gardenia after deciding to leave Magic Dimension behind because of Sky. However, the whole town reminds her of him. The Trix follow Bloom to her home and attacks her adoptive parents, eventually weakening Bloom so they could steal the Dragon's Flame and they reveal to her that her real parents are the king and queen of Domino and that she is the princess of that realm. Stella later appears and takes Bloom back to Alfea[6].

Gardenia Park
The Winx visit Gardenia together and decide to visit the dancing club while Bloom wants to talk to her adoptive parents about her search of her birth parents and about the trial of the conmen who tried to destroy her Flower Shop in Season 1. The pixies discover that children see and hear them, but grown ups do not. Musa even makes suggestion that children humans born with magic and grows out of it before having change to use it[11].
At the Dancing Club, Musa uses her magic to change music and couple of guys see this and drives everyone else away, leaving only Musa and Aisha in, so they can use their powers. Musa even blows their cover. While the men are threatening them, Aisha loses her temper and attacks them. The Winx Club manage to fight back a little and escape, but they soon run to a dead end. Griselda and Faragonda appear and erase memories of that night from those guys mind and take the girls and pixies back to Alfea, where they are punished[11].
Later they revisit Gardenia and Mitzi invites them to her Halloween party. Mitzi tries to ruin their fun, but the Winx manage to keep themselves out of her tricks until Mitzi makes up an story of four witches to scare the Winx with help of her friends but ends by falling in her own trap thanks to the Pixies[12].Gardenia did not make a major appearance this season. After the events on Eraklyon, Bloom decided to go back to Gardenia and stay with Mike and Vanessa, to help keep her minds off of things. Stella goes to Gardenia to inform Bloom of the news of Sky's engagement to Diaspro[13].

Shortly before the beginning of the next Alfea school year following the defeat of the Wizards of the Black Circle, the Winx held a performance at the Frutti Music Bar. While cleaning up the beach after the concert, the Winx realized there had been an explosion on an oil rig further out to sea. The Winx and the Specialists join forces to rescue all the survivors but in the process Sky dropped the Pendant of Eraklyon into the ocean[33]. The Winx later returned to Gardenia in order to locate the Lilo, and had to fight the Trix, who were also after the magical flower[34].
When Bloom went to the Library of Alexandria in Egypt in search of Eldora's Diary, she met Selina there, and it was revealed that Selina and Bloom both grew up in Gardenia and were friends through Bloom's flashbacks[35]. After finding the diary in the Library, the Winx went to search for the Shrine Dragon in China, and flashbacks of Selina and Bloom cycling in the Gardenia Park together were seen when Bloom was wondering why was Selina in Egypt[36]. When Selina later went to Alfea, and Bloom told Sky that Selina used to be her best friend when she grew up in Gardenia[37]. After Selina tricked Bloom into nearly poisoning Flora, a shocked and confused Bloom decided to leave Alfea[37], and she went to her adoptive parents' house in Gardenia[38]. Meanwhile, Flora was able to find out that the Lenugia flower which would allow the Winx to find Eldora grows in Gardenia, and at the same time Bloom also realized that Eldora was in Gardenia through her childhood memories of her and Selina playing in the Forest of Flowers in Gardenia when they were children[38]. When Selina found out that Bloom was in Gardenia, she used the Legendarium to summon the Children of the Night and ordered them to take over Gardenia and eliminate Bloom. The Children of the Night started to attack the town's inhabitants before draining the energy of the participants of the Gardenia Goth Ball and hypnotizing them, and ordered them to attack Bloom[38]. When Lockette heard of the plans of the Children of the Night, she confronted them, but the Children of the Night tried to attack her. This caused Bloom to sense that Lockette was in danger through their bonding, and she transformed into her Bloomix fairy form and went to save the Pixies. After this, the Children of the Night and the hypnotized inhabitants of Gardenia attacked Bloom and the Pixies, and the Winx who were still at Alfea sensed that their bonded Pixies were in danger[38]. Bloom fled to her parents' house to try and escape the Children of the Night, but they attacked the house. She then tried to get the Children of the Night out of Gardenia to prevent them from hypnotizing more people, but they attacked her and the Pixies in Gardenia Park[39]. The Winx arrived to save Bloom and the Pixies, following which they went to the Gardenia Goth Ball where the Children of the Night kidnapped all of them except Stella and were preparing to drain all of their fairy energy. Stella then arrived and summoned the powers of the Suns of Solaria to destroy the Children of the Night and save the Winx. After this, the Winx participated in the Gardenia Goth Ball, where Stella won in a fashion competition[39]. After defeating the Children of the Night, the Winx stayed at Bloom's parents' place before going to the Forest of Flowers, where they finally found Eldora. There, the Trix and Ectoplasm Specters attacked them, but the Winx and Eldora were able to defeat the Specters, and the Trix retreated. Bloom suggests that everyone should go to her house.[40]. At Bloom's house, Eldora met Bloom's parents and gifted Vanessa a magical plant. Then she told the Winx what she knew on how the Legendarium could be locked forever, and she and the Winx went to Tir Nan Og, where they obtained the Mythix Wands, while the Pixies struggled to take care of the magical plant back in Gardenia. Everyone, including Vanessa and Morgana, went to Alfea later that day to celebrate Mother's Day[41].
Specials

The "Welcome" sign seen in the Specials.
Gardenia is once again, the starting point of a series of events that led Bloom to discover she is no ordinary Earth girl. After receiving her bike, she and Kiko take it for a ride at Gardenia Park. Bloom sits under a tree and takes a bite of an apple while Kiko goes off exploring. However, he quickly runs back to Bloom in a panic and quickly directs her to what he had saw. Deeper into the park, the two witness a battle a fairy, Stella the Fairy of the Shining Sun and an ogre named Knut and his ghouls. Stella did not have trouble fending them off but the antagonists get the better of her and she struggles. Bloom quickly steps in but her interference causes Knut to order his ghouls to attack her. As the ghouls near her she unconsciously conjures up a shield which dispatches the ghouls. She looks at her hands, shocked that she had done that. As Kiko expresses his pride for Bloom, he is sneak up on by a ghoul, causing him to faint. Bloom protects him by whacking the ghoul away with a branch. Her meddling eventually angers Knut and he starts throwing her around. Out of instinct, Bloom summons an ever more powerful burst of energy, effectively disorientating Knut for a bit, allowing Stella to retrieve her scepter. Seeing that he is at a disadvantage, Knut teleports away with his ghouls. Stella is relieved they finally have left her alone but she faints due to exhaustion; Bloom and Kiko take her back home.

Bloom's drawing of Gardenia and fairies.
When Stella awakens at Bloom's house, Vanessa checks up on her. Stella tells her she is alright and begins to explain everything, magic and all, Mike finds her to be delirious and tries to call for help. Stella realizes he does not believe her and so she proves to him that magic is real by transforming the phone he was holding into vegetables.
After that, Bloom and Stella get acquainted in Bloom's room. Bloom expresses her disbelief that she herself is also a fairy. Stella eventually convinces her to join Alfea to learn how to control her powers. Vanessa and Mike have their own discussion on Bloom's true heritage. Their discussions come to a halt however as Knut has returned to once again retrieve Stella's scepter with his ghouls and the help of a hunting troll who assisted him in locating Bloom and her home.
They have another battle but Knut and his minions appear to once again have the upper-hand, but Stella called the Specialists ahead of time and they arrive just in time. With their help, Knut and his ghouls are forced to leave empty handed again while the hunting troll is captured. Meeting the boys was enough to secure Bloom's decision to go to Alfea. With that, the next day, Bloom is packed and ready to leave for the Magic Dimension but her parents tag along, not willing to let her go herself. Bloom is happy about it but as it turns out, non-magical beings are not allowed to enter Magix and thus, Alfea. With their goodbyes said, Stella teleports Mika and Vanessa home.
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Because of not liking her life as an princess of Domino, Bloom runs off to Gardenia. Other girls visit her as well, but then Trix and Ancestral Witches drain the Tree of Life out of positive energy and Faragonda tells the Winx to stay in Gardenia. Winx start living without their powers and almost everyone of them looks enjoying it. Sky then appears to Bloom and tells her to come into Eraklyon in order to learn the truth. Meanwhile Oritel and Marion have come met Mike and Vanessa. Oritel wants to bring Bloom back home, but Mike tells that would not be good idea. He and Vanessa even show video of Bloom growing up to Oritel and tells him to talk to her. Bloom then comes in, asking what his dad is doing there. As Mike and Oritel both starts explaining, Bloom tells she meant Oritel not Mike. Bloom then tells Oritel that she is going to Eraklyon and leaves. Mike then talks to Bloom about her father and then tells Bloom to "Go and save the universe again".
World of Winx
Seasons

Gardenia in WOW.
Gardenia serves as one of the many central locations in World of Winx due to the Winx still living together in their loft and Roxy still working at the Frutti Music Bar, but as its owner this time.
The city is first seen during a downpour in the first episode, as the Winx chase down a man they have dubbed as the "Talent Thief." Unfortunately, they lose sight of the Talent Thief and must now rush back to their loft to star on WOW as its newest talent scouts.

WOW Auditions in Gardenia.
After their introductions, the Winx head out to a park where auditions for those seeking to be on WOW are scheduled. After a grueling process with no results, the Winx hear a nice singing voice coming from nearby and follow the voice to a Cupcake Café, where one of the waitresses happened to be humming while working. The Winx introduce themselves to the young waitress whose name is Annabelle and, soon enough, she becomes the newest WOW contestant! In order to help her pursue her dreams, the Winx help around the Café during Annabelle's shift while the young singer gets coached by Musa.

Annabelle on-stage at the Frutti Music Bar.
Soon enough, Annabelle's big night rolls around and she sings her song, This is Me, to everyone in attendance. The crowd erupts in cheers and applause as Annabelle takes it in, becoming WOW's first finalist, while the Winx experience a strange feeling and vision of a new form. However, all is not well, as the lights are suddenly turned off as the audience cheers for an encore and, later, Annabelle goes missing.
The Winx search for the missing finalist but come across her friend and coworker Louise instead. With Annabelle nowhere to be found, Ace tries to buy time having her performance played again.
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Trivia
- There is a real place called "Gardena" in the southwestern corner of Los Angeles County, in southern California, in the United States of America.
- According to the vision that Bloom saw when she went to Domino to find the Dragon Flame again in Season 1[7], and to the scene when the Winx arrived to Earth in Season 4[4], the country on Earth where Gardenia is located is the United States of America.
- The Gardenia is a type of flowering plant.
- Bloom's hometown being named after a flowering plant might be a reference to how, in the Harry Potter series, the streets of the town of Little Whinging where Harry lives with his aunt are named after flowering plants, like Privet Drive, Magnolia Crescent, Magnolia Road and Wisteria Walk.
- Along with Earth, Gardenia appears to be either a main or minor setting for each of the seasons and movies.
- It is also the main setting for the spin-off series, World of Winx.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Fairy in Danger
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Winx Believix
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nebula
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 The Last Fairy on Earth
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Love & Pet
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Font of Dragon Fire
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Crown of Dreams
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Great Secret Revealed
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ice and Fire
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 An Unexpected Event
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Invisible Pixies
- ↑ Hallowinx!
- ↑ The Heart and the Sword
- ↑ The Fairy Hunters
- ↑ The Tree of Life
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Mitzi's Present
- ↑ The White Circle
- ↑ Musa's Song
- ↑ Winx Club Forever!
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Dad! I'm a Fairy!
- ↑ The Wizards' Attack
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 7: The Perfect Number
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Magic Lessons
- ↑ A Virtual World
- ↑ The Enchanted Island
- ↑ The Nature Rage
- ↑ In Diana's Kingdom
- ↑ The Gifts of Destiny
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Sibylla's Cave
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Bloom's Trial
- ↑ The Frozen Tower
- ↑ The Day of Justice
- ↑ The Spill
- ↑ The Lilo
- ↑ Attack of the Sphinx
- ↑ Shrine of the Green Dragon
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 The Secret Greenhouse
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 Broken Dreams
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 Shimmer in the Shadows
- ↑ The Fairy Godmother
- ↑ Mythix
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