On Gadigal Country, south of Sydney’s Central Business District, is a small inner-city suburb called Ultimo. Considering Ultimo as the intersection of multiple trajectories, we show how particular neoliberal narratives focused on growth and creativity influence the visibility of other stories and trajectories that also constitute this place. For instance, with its complex built environment, mobile population and developing economy, rarely is this part of the city imagined as an ecology that connects human beings to other species. In this chapter, we ask how designers can disturb neoliberal narratives through alliances with plants, first by making the plantiness of the precinct visible, and second by introducing different sets of relations between species. While cities are usually understood as human centered, design choices that attend to a multi-species future are in fact necessary to human survival. Given the current climate breakdown being experienced in Ultimo and globally, the trajectories shaping Ultimo’s future are complex and uncertain. An analysis of these trajectories reveals the entangled futures of plants and people. Learning to see and be with plants in cities, and to design with plants as allies, is a way to disrupt the human centred and catastrophic narratives of neoliberal cities. Such a proposition can help expand ideas of social justice beyond a human rights framework to consider the environment and other species as designers of trajectories in space.