What awaits us all. Even for a devoted gardener like Barbara Frischmuth, the day comes when she decides to downsize her garden. As she reluctantly dismantles flower beds, she reflects on what modern neuroscience has discovered about how plants communicate—with each other and with humans. Despite her good intentions, she finds herself buying seedlings again. But doesn’t a sore back sometimes bring more happiness than being comfortable in old age? One must be able to dedicate oneself to something in order to be happy, and the garden provides a perfect space for that. So when Barbara Frischmuth talks about the irresistibility of a garden, she directs our gaze to the diversity of life itself. "I realize that the inhabitants of the garden know much more about me than I know about them.".