Growing spaces: terrace

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

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.

The fruit of the dry west, cropping where irrigation is impossible.

Feathery-leaved and drought-hardy; one grafted tree feeds a household in winter.

A thorny hedge shrub that gives pickling fruit and keeps animals out.

Passion flower — intricate blooms and the host plant of tawny coster butterflies.

The desert milkweed, smaller than gigantea and even tougher.