Growing spaces: ground

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.

One tree feeds a street. Green for sabzi, ripe for the sweetest fruit there is.

Scarlet flowers on bare branches in spring; grows from a stuck-in cutting.

The national flower — a big tub, full sun and patience is all it takes.

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.