Goals: biodiversity

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.

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

Neat glossy shrub with pinwheel white flowers; the easiest good hedge there is.

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 Himalayan pseudo-grain that flowers white and feeds every bee for miles.

Drops its scented white flowers at dawn — the harsingar of temple courtyards.