Goals: Biodiversity

A cement tub of still water becomes a dragonfly habitat in one season.

The national flower — a big tub, full sun and patience is all it takes.

Flowers open white and turn crimson over three days; scents a whole verandah.

Orange jessamine — flushes of scented white flowers after every rain.

Opens at four in the afternoon and self-sows itself around the garden.

The most reliable cut flower for an Indian summer terrace.

A fortnight of spectacle and then a head of seed the birds will take.

Flowers every day of the year and asks for nothing. Indigenous to the deccan.

Orange flower clusters straight off the trunk — a sacred tree, now threatened.

Flame of the forest — bare branches and orange flowers through the dry spring.