Seasons: Summer

Yellow bells almost all year on a shrub that survives a forgotten terrace.

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

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.

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

Host plant for tiger butterflies — plant one and the caterpillars arrive.

The desert milkweed, smaller than gigantea and even tougher.

A relentless nectar plant — and an invasive that must be kept in a pot.

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.