Goals: Flowers & beauty

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

Glossy drooping new leaves in pink, then white flowers with a gold centre.

Orange-yellow flowers whose scent carries across a whole garden at dusk.

White flowers with orange tubes that open at night and are on the ground by dawn.

The chuli of Ladakh and Kinnaur — blossom in April, fruit and kernel oil by July.

Pink blossom in November, out of season by every other measure — the hill wild cherry.

A woody climber with fringed white-and-yellow flowers and a heavy sweet scent.

Big palmate leaves and white flower candles in the western Himalayan valleys.

Red brushes of stamens on drooping branches; a hardy naturalised garden tree.

Yellow flower spires and copper seed pods; the summer partner to the gulmohar.