Growing spaces: terrace

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.

Small sour-sweet berries in May, from a shrub that shrugs off a Delhi summer.

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

A sub-Himalayan scrambler with brick-red bracts through the cool months.

A spiny yellow-flowered shrub of dry scrub, unbothered by heat or thin soil.

Orchid-like flowers in February, and buds that go into the north-Indian kitchen.

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