Growing spaces: terrace

A winter annual of the north-west, grown for the thyme-scented seed.

Plant a knob of market haldi in June; harvest your own in February.

The same trick as turmeric, in slightly more shade and slightly less time.

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

A slender twiner of scrub and hedges, with fragrant roots and small dark flowers.

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

A woody climber of the dry deccan, slow but very long-lived on a trellis.

A slight winter annual of dry western fields, grown for the husk of its seed.

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

Fine blue-white flowers over ferny leaves, then the black seed of the spice box.