Goals: biodiversity

One tree feeds a street. Green for sabzi, ripe for the sweetest fruit there is.

Purple fruit in June and dense evergreen shade for the rest of the year.

The fruit of the dry west, cropping where irrigation is impossible.

A century-tree with feathery shade and the sourness of half of Indian cooking.

A thorny hedge shrub that gives pickling fruit and keeps animals out.

Yellow bells almost all year on a shrub that survives a forgotten terrace.

A sub-Himalayan scrambler with brick-red bracts through the cool months.

A spiny yellow-flowered shrub of dry scrub, unbothered by heat or thin soil.

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.