ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the proceeding chapters of this book. The book explores gardening as a craft of living with non-humans and becoming human. There is of course a long history of gardening as a metaphor in environmental thought. One of the most influential accounts was provided by Richard Grove's Green Imperialism. It offers albeit obliquely, a very different response to the Anthropocene. It has not taken up the Promethean fantasy of planetary ecomodernism, a fantasy that might take form in the high-technology, high-input, high-capital gardens designed to buttress corporate urbanism, or in the transformation of gardening from craft to lifestyle pursuit. The book examines the process of becoming a good gardener requires transspecies curiosity and mutually calibrating regard. The forms of knowledge a gardener needs are varied: practical skills, a trained eye, a capacity to predict, openness to experimentation and learning and a heightened sensitivity to flows of enchantment.
