In a time of rapid degradation of fundamental green spaces and accelerating climate change, Unpredictable Gardens: The Aesthetics and Politics of Plant Life in Latin America reflects on the cultural, political, and aesthetic relevance of the vegetal world through spatial, artistic, and discursive practices from before the first contact with European settlers to the present. From architecture and landscape history to comparative literature, and from urban parks and botanical gardens to horticultural magazines and contemporary artworks, the range of disciplines and objects of inquiry represented in this volume illustrates the multifocal ways in which gardens are conceived and rendered visible.