This paper advances the suggestion that the garden (and gardening) may be a new ecological paradigm. Today’s environmental aesthetics and ethics are mainly interested in wild nature. It is argued that nature enclosed in national parks, which provides the main topic for contemporary aesthetic and ethical considerations, should be replaced with nature cultivated in gardens. The author claism that – theoretically and practically – we should treat the gardenas a model which makes it possible to reconsider the relationship between people and their natural environment. The article was first published in Aesthetics of Human Environment.VIII Ovsiannikov International Aesthetic Conference, ed. by. S. Dzikevich, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 2017, p. 32-45. I elaborated on this topic in Salwa 2020, 149-170; Salwa 2022; Frydryczak, Salwa 2022