Coffee has two main varieties: arabica and robusta. Arabica is descended from the original Ethiopian coffee trees. The coffee made from this variety is mild and aromatic. It's the 'king' of coffee.

Coffea catura arabica is the most highly prized of the arabica coffees and valuable due to its superior flavour characteristics, it is the coffee that specialty roasters search for. Arabica coffee flavour can be described as fragrant, sweet often chocolaty, with a pleasant bitter note. Its also a lovely evergreen shrub.

Kona coffea arabica is a variety of coffee, cultivated on the slopes of Mount Hualalai and Mauna Loa in the North and South Kona Districts of the Big Island of Hawaii. Despite that its an easy evergreen shrub to grow at home.

Coffee canephora will take three to four years to mature but when they do they give brilliant white flowers with a beautiful sweet jasmine or orange-like fragrance. Dense clusters of flowers grow at the base of the evergreen dark green, oval leaves, enriching the entire room with their perfume.

Coffea Racemosa is one of the less-talked-about species although it has a reputation among coffee growers for having excellent quality beans. This bushy species from southern Africa branches readily and is an abundant producer. The plants are very odorous and remain rather short compared to other coffee species.

The Dwarf Pomegranate is one of the best compact, ornamental shrubs for courtyards and small gardens, its compact size makes it suitable to containers. Producing breathtaking orange/red trumpet-shaped flowers which are followed by orange/red fruit.

The wild rose bursts with lightly scented, usually flesh pink flowers (though they can be pinker or whitish) in summer. They are followed by a terrific show of bright red hips, they can be used to make jam, jelly, syrup, marmalade and wine. Delicious and an excellent natural source of vitamin C.

Prized for their beauty, fragrance, novelty and adaptability, miniature roses are the queen of flowers. This diminutive Chinese native grow to about 12 to 18 inches high in containers and baskets and blooms just 3 to 5 months from sowing. Although hardy, it can be grown as an annual when started early.