The urban landscape of Lahore, Pakistan, has long been associated with gardens and cultivated nature. This legacy is normally associated with Sultanate and Mughal era patronage of landscape design, but emerged as a distinct aesthetic imaginary in the mid-nineteenth century, as the colonial state attempted to reengineer so-called deserts in newly occupied Punjab into productive landscapes. The infrastructures of landscape transformation — imported seeds, improved soils, monocrop agricultures, perennial canals, and forest plantations — helped to usher an enduring urban culture of horticultural pursuits and landscape designs, as well as their concomitant processes of erasure, extraction, and commodification. Thinking with Heather Davis and Zoe Todd’s (2017) reading of the Anthropocene as the “extension and enactment of colonial logic (that) systematically erases difference”, this paper seeks to explore the conceptual history of the garden in Lahore as an agent, archive, and site of changing climates. Moving outside the epistemological boundaries that hem the garden as a signifier of periodized landscape design, it will trace how colonial modes of extracting labor, enclosing land, and breaking relations “reverberate” in the forms, processes, and aesthetics of contemporary urban landscapes. A situated reading of the garden also opens avenues to consider other inhabitations, embodiments, and species relations that resist the “anthropocene logics” of colonial and postcolonial environmental management