Regions: North India

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.

Curtains of orange through the cool months on a big pergola.

Tall and narrow, dropping long white scented flowers through the night.

The tree the subcontinent is organised around; a grafted plant fruits in four years.

The most forgiving fruit tree for a small Indian garden or a big pot.

Fruit inside a year from seed — the fastest fruit a household can grow.

A small deccan tree that fruits on very little water and poor soil.

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

Blue butterfly pea — a light climber that fixes nitrogen and makes blue tea.