Goals: Biodiversity

A thorny desert shrub whose resin has been traded for millennia; now endangered.

A prickly low solanum of wasteland, with violet flowers bumblebees buzz-pollinate.

An intensely bitter Himalayan herb of mid-altitude meadows, slow and particular.

An unfussy evergreen shrub with white throated flowers that carpenter bees work.

A high-altitude Himalayan herb — only worth trying in the hills, and only from nursery stock.

The spikenard of the high Himalaya, aromatic-rooted and strictly a mountain plant.

A dry-country shrub with yellow flowers, tough enough for a Rajasthan roof.

Feathery winter foliage, then umbels that hoverflies and small wasps work all day.

A marginal water plant for a tub, aromatic-rooted and steady for years.

A small shady-forest shrub, historically important and now scarce in the wild.