Dwarf White orchid tree

Botanical name: Bauhinia acuminata Common name: Dwarf White orchid tree, Dwarf white bauhinia • Hindi: सफ़ेद कचनार Safed Kachnar • Manipuri: চিঙথ্ৰাও অঙৌবা Chingthrao angouba • Tamil: வெள்ளை மந்தாரை Vellai mandaarai • Malayalam: Mandaaram • Kannada: Kanchan • Assamese: Mati-katota • Sanskrit: शिवमल्ली Sivamalli

The dwarf white bauhinia is native to Asia. This is a perfect little tree for places where you don't want anything wild to take over. It will grow no more than two or three meters, and won't take up much space or get in anyone's way. It really is quite inoffensive. Beautiful white flowers cover this tree in spring and fill the air with a sweet clean fragrance. The white flowers look like snowflakes hanging on the branches. Sometimes it is called Snowy Orchid Tree. The leaves are shaped a little like a cow's hoof.

Mysore Clock Vine

Botanical name: Thunbergia mysorensis
Common name: Mysore Clock Vine, Dolls shoes, Brick and butter vine
Kannada: ಕಾಮನಬಿಲ್ಲು ಬಲ್ಲೀ Kamanabillu balli Family: Acanthaceae (Ruellia family)
Which flowering vine is the most beautiful of all? A great number of growers from around the world have chosen this one, and rightly so. In flower almost every day of the year, a mature vine bears hundreds of 3" yellow and rust red flowers in spectacularly long hanging chains. Mysore Clock Vine, is a woody-stemmed, evergreen climbing flowering plant, native to India. The name, mysorensis is derived from the city of Mysore. The vine often reaches 20 feet (6 metres). Oppositely arranged ovate-lancelike leaves are 5-6 inches long, and handsome dark glossy green. Flowers are large, in long pendulous interrupted racemes. The plant is more delicate in appearance than its blue flowered cousins. The plant is a popular garden item because of its attractiveness to hummingbirds. This vine is shy of seeiding and has to be propagated by layering. Flowers in the cold season.

Cardinal Creeper / Lady Doorly's Morning Glory

Botanical name: Ipomoea horsfalliae
Common name: Cardinal Creeper, Lady Doorly's Morning Glory
Family: Convolvulaceae (morning-glory family)Native to Jamaica, this evergreen woody vine is commonly cultivated all around the world. The ornamental features are its foliage and the flowers. The leaves are palmately divided into five to seven segments, and are very atractive smooth green color. The noticable long red flowers are in groups. Even before the flowers emerge the buds are a positive feature, because they look like small berries.

Lemonia - Ravenia spectabilis

Botanical name: Ravenia spectabilis Family: Rutaceae (citrus family)
Common name: Lemonia, Limonia, Pink Ravenia
An exotic and rare plant, Lemonia is a large shrub with bright dark pink flowers. The flower petals have a grainy and hard texture. The flowers have a curious flattened appearance. Leaves are divided into three leaflets which are elliptic, dark green and glossy. Prefers semi-shade conditions and regular watering. Great butterfly attractor. Though it is known to grow to a height of 3-5 metres, it is mostly maintained as a shrub. It is especially attractive when grown in shrubby groups.

Rhododendron yedoense - Korean Azalea

Korean Azalea is common to the open grassy slopes of Korea and Japan. A low to medium shrub, it is usually evergreen but loses its leaves in colder climates. Its habit is very dense and mounding, with ovate to lance-shaped dark green leaves, 1.5-3 inches long. Fragrant, widely funnel-shaped flowers are borne in trusses of 2 to 4 blooms and are rose pink to light to medium purple. Korean Azalea is cultivated in the cooler regions of India, particularly NE India and North Indian hill stations.

Zimbabwe Creeper

Botanical Name:Podranea brycei
Zimbabwe Creeper is a charming climber, native to South Africa. It has cascading bunches of flowers, each a large, single bloom. The plant has long, thin stems that grow up to 15 feet, with shapely pinnate leaves, quite like Wisteria. Bunches of pale pink flowers, with thin lined throats, hang at the ends of the stems. Throats are hairy. The plant grows rapidly, easily scaling walls or a framework, a mass of green leaves highlighted by the big flowers. It can be pruned into a shrub by cutting back hard every year. A sunny position is preferred although too much heat is not suitable for the plant. The cooler months of the year are ideal for Zimbabwe Creeper to flourish. Too much water and mulchy soil have a detrimental effect on flowering. Propagate from spring-sown seed or cuttings. This creeper has some resemblance to Bower Vine