Regions: south

The kewda of Odisha — spiny leaves and a male flower distilled for scent.

The white frangipani of temple gardens, tougher than the pink and just as scented.

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

Purple trumpet flushes twice a year, and leaves that smell of garlic when crushed.

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

The most reliable cut flower for an Indian summer terrace.

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

Edible flowers and leaves, and a magnet that pulls aphids off your vegetables.

Opens in full sun on a terrace where nothing else will survive noon.

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