This paper attempts to read Temsula Ao’s “Laburnum for my Head” in terms of problematizing the connection between woman, nature and what it means for the woman in the city and society. The laburnum, a metaphor for women’s dreams is a ‘natural’ dream that echoes across cultures and Lentina’s wish for the blossoms for her “head” drives the action of the story, highlighting its centrality. This strong desire to be a part of nature, in texts such as Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007, translated 2015) is a desire that has deep rooted implications not only for the female body but also for the patriarchal society which places women at the edge of the city, towards the forest making her, in Cixous’s terms a “watch-bitch or a sphinx”, prowling the forest uttering but little. It is also indicative of the entrenched patriarchy across cultures that stifles any attempt at individual change as opposed to societal expectations. The paper tries to deconstruct the stereotypes, subversions and resistance latent in the text leaving it up to the readers to decide whether this turn to nature works as a means of resistance or reproduces the same patriarchal patterns that it attempts to resist.