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[Don Blake]

All right.  "The Hanging Gardens of Wanerock, which are, for various reasons, in a big pit in the ground," it is.

[CapnUrist]

They're dwarves. Everything amounts to a "pit in the ground". Even when it's completely above ground.

[Don Blake]

I've added a couple of pics, demonstrating a small basic model (two pillars) to demonstrate to my satisfaction that what I'm trying to do is possible.

[squeakyReaper]

Sorry for everyone raining on your parade, or drought-ing on your garden, or what have you.  We're helping you along, in our own way.  xD

[Don Blake]

Sorry for everyone raining on your parade, or drought-ing on your garden, or what have you.  We're helping you along, in our own way.  xD

Oh no, it's just as well.  It'd be much more disappointing (although perhaps also more Dwarfy) to find out that I couldn't do it after building it.

Although I could always make a hanging Sculpture Garden.

[doomdome]

A sculpture garden is a garden of sorts, and potentially much more dwarfy than plants... Perhaps you could use your platinum for the statues. Or make one statue in every craftable metal, all masterwork or artifacts of course.

[Kogut]

building a roof only marks a tile as inside. a tile with a roof built over it is still above ground, meaning no subterranean crops.

Is it bug or feature?

[Frosty_Dorf]

when you create a cave in, does it only punch through floors if theres a tunnel underneath, or can walls be built up high, natural rock caved in intentionally on top to reform into natural rock walls [is that possible even? I read something about cave ins turning all the rock falling into individual tile rocks until landing then reforming together...] and create a natural "roof" by using a huge amount of scaffolds and artificial walls to hold the rock up high when it caves down.
would something like this work...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

side view, before:
zlv4+  N|                        RRRRRRRRRRR
zlv3    N|                        S
zlv2    N|                        WWWWWWW
zlv1    N|                        WWWWWWW
zlv0    N|________________WWWWWWW___________
R:Rock wall, mined material built on top
S:support: linked to a mechanism to remove
W:temporary/permanent wall tile, any material, removable at a later time, but used to provide a buffer for the cavein
N:Natural unmined wall
After collapse:
zlv4+  N|
zlv3    N|                        NNNNNNNNNN
zlv2    N|                       WWWWWWW
zlv1    N|                       WWWWWWW
zlv0    N|_______________WWWWWWW____________
When "S" is removed, "R" will all collapse down, but if the ground beneath is a full tile block [a wall] would it stop the upper level from falling farther, thus creating a "natural" sun break and making the tiles under "inside"? or would they stay permanently outside when exposed, even once?
and end up with something like :
zlv4+  N|
zlv3    N|                        NNNNNNNNNN
zlv2    N|                        W[insert garden here]
zlv1    N|                        WWWWWWW
zlv0    N|________________W______________________
and of course expand it from just once branch to:
zlv9+                                                               
zlv8                    NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN     
zlv7                                N[insert garden here]       
zlv6         [and here]        NNNNNNNNNN                 
zlv5   __   NNNNNNNNNNNNNN                                   
zlv4    N|                         N  [ooooh pretty tree]
zlv3    N|                         NNNNNNNNNN                      ____
zlv2    N|                         W[insert MORE garden here]|N
zlv1    N|                         WWWWWWW                     |N
zlv0    N|_________________W_________________________|N

oh, alternative idea if the above doesn't work, what about a small obsidian casing over where you want to plant the garden if the above idea doesn't work? Or would an obsidian cast have the revealed to sun issue as well as a roof would?