Nature notes 2022 (3)

The list of trees and other plants now grown in the office garden, both in-ground and in containers:

Indian pennywort
Chili pepper
Chinese broccoli
Cucumber
Cilantro
Basil (Holy, Italian and Purple)
Eggplant (several varieties)
Ginger
Lemongrass
Rocket
Long beans
Mustard (greens)
Water convolvulus
Spinach
Some sort of gourd
Parsley
Purple pak choy (an F1 seed from Singapore, picked up in a local nursery)
Snake Gourd
Mint
Tomatoes
Sunflowers
A species of Calendula
French Marigold (Tagetes species)
Roselle
Citron
Dragonfruit cactus (recently transplanted from a pot into the ground and settling in nicely)
Bouea macrophylla
Guava
Calamondin Lime
Pineapple
Pomelo
Pomegranate
Starfruit
Mango
Senegalia rugata
Spondias dulcis
Black pepper (Piper nigrum)
Sesbania grandiflora (the flowers are both gorgeous and edible)

Several years ago now, I decided that the lawn was surplus to requirements, and told the gardeners to put in fruit trees and turn it into an orchard instead.