Flower power

HOW would you describe a plant? That depends on who you ask. A man on the street might point out its pretty, colourful flowers that give off a fragrant scent. A botanist would spell out the scientific name of the plant and its properties. Japanese landscape architect Jun-ichi Inada thinks of plants as "members of a space". He waxes lyrical about plants saying, "they are like interpreters of the day's weather".

He cites the example of how y…