Goals: Biodiversity

Buransh — scarlet trusses across the mid-Himalaya in March.

The Himalayan cedar — a slow, magnificent, cold-climate conifer.

A fibre hibiscus of eastern India, quick and very tall.

Desi cotton — the indigenous species, hardier than the imported kinds.

The dye plant of history, nitrogen-fixing and undemanding.

Red February cups feeding every bird in the neighbourhood at once.

A sub-Himalayan tree giving edible fat and enormous quantities of nectar.

A cold-desert shrub of Ladakh, nitrogen-fixing and vitamin-dense.

Flushes pink-red new leaves in spring; a broad, fast shade tree.

The timber tree of the north Indian plain, nitrogen-fixing and fast.