Flowering Plants

Sheets of magenta, orange, purple or white over a hot wall.

Thick sculptural branches carrying scented five-petal flowers.

The orange-and-blue crane flower on tall grey-green paddles.

The white pinwheel flower that scents Pakistani courtyards all summer.

Heavy white blooms with the strongest scent in the nursery.

Cream-marbled foliage under the usual scented flowers.

Trumpet flowers over arching grassy clumps, all summer.

Four enormous trumpets on a single bare stem.

Hot orange heads — the brightest thing in a summer border.

Bulbs that flower within days of the first monsoon rain.

A giant banana-leaved strelitzia for scale and shade.

A compact shrub smothered in ruffled pink or white blooms.

Butter-yellow flower heads on a compact evergreen shrub.

Airy fern-like foliage under scarlet-and-gold flower spikes.

Small yellow flowers with one of the strongest scents in the garden.

A spreading tree that turns solid pink in early summer.