Goals: Flowers & beauty

A pot by an open window does more for a summer evening than any air freshener.

The chameli of the perfume fields — long-tubed white flowers picked before dawn.

The desert teak — orange trumpets on bare wood in March, on a tree that needs no water.

Pink or white flowers all year on a shrub that survives the worst urban roadside.

Narrow willow leaves and yellow bells; tough, fast and equally poisonous.

Orange tubular flowers, continuously, and the sunbirds that follow them.

Flowers nearly all year in a warm city, and sunbirds find it within a week.

A hardier deciduous hibiscus for the hills, flowering through the monsoon.

One enlarged white sepal per flower, so the whole shrub reads as pale bracts.

Blue flower sprays and orange berries at once; the standard clipped Indian hedge.