Goals: Flowers & beauty

Curtains of orange through the cool months on a big pergola.

Tall and narrow, dropping long white scented flowers through the night.

A single sucker in a corner gives shade, cooking leaves and, in time, fruit.

Blue butterfly pea — a light climber that fixes nitrogen and makes blue tea.

Passion flower — intricate blooms and the host plant of tawny coster butterflies.

Flat clusters of small stars that butterflies can actually land on.

Yellow chandeliers in May, when the city most needs something to look at.

The flame tree of Indian summers; fast, spectacular and shallow-rooted.

Orchid-like flowers in February, and buds that go into the north-Indian kitchen.

Huge red cups in February that feed every bird in the neighbourhood at once.