Native canopy
Aravalli species create shade, soil stability and long-term habitat.
The living landscape of Noka
A reserve
built as habitat.
Noka begins with the land: water, canopy, food and returning life. Architecture belongs within that habitat—not above it.
The Noka commitment
Beauty that
gives back.
Every planting layer, water edge, pathway and structure is considered as part of one living system.
The goal is not a manicured landscape. It is a resilient biodiversity reserve that becomes richer, cooler and more alive with time.
The water story
Every drop
has a future.
A rain-fed natural lake, a 250,000-litre reservoir and layered harvesting systems help capture the monsoon and return water slowly to the land. The lake is designed as habitat too—with quieter edges and shallows where insects, amphibians and waterbirds can feed, rest and breed.
Walk the water trail250,000litres of rainwater storage
A landscape with many lives
Pollinator corridors
Flowering trees, shrubs and climbers connect food and shelter across the reserve.
Edible landscape
A diverse orchard turns seasonal harvests into habitat as well as food.
Living water
Lake edges and quiet shallows support birds, insects, amphibians and smaller species.
Trees & plants at Noka
From canopy
to undergrowth.
Flowering canopy
A long season of nectar.
Pride of India, Golden Bottlebrush, Red Champa, Kachnar, Indian Cork Tree, Amaltas and Mahua are layered to create changing waves of blossom, scent, pollen and shade through the year.
28 Pride of India · 50 Golden Bottlebrush · 45 Red ChampaAravalli structure
Trees that belong to this land.
Neem, Arjun, Maulsari, Cluster Fig, Khejri, Rohida, Dhok and Salar build the deeper structure of the reserve—holding soil, cooling the ground and creating cover, perches and nesting space.
Native and climate-resilient species placed across the reserveLiving edges
Shelter from ground to branch.
Creeping Fig, Star Jasmine, Rangoon Creeper, Flame Vine, Murraya, Clerodendrum, Hamelia and Karonda turn boundaries into layered green corridors rather than hard edges.
50 of each major shrub and climber · 40 KarondaThe first planting palette also includes Neem, Arjun, Maulsari, Kachnar, Indian Cork Tree, Cluster Fig, Amaltas, Mahua, Khejri, Rohida, Dhok and Salar—selected to combine beauty, resilience and habitat value in the Alwar landscape.
The chain of life
A flower becomes
a whole ecosystem.
A caterpillar needs the right host leaf. A butterfly and bee need nectar. A flowering tree needs pollination. Fruit feeds a bird or bat; the seed travels and new growth begins elsewhere. Noka’s landscape is planned around these relationships—not around plants in isolation.
- 01Host plantCaterpillar
- 02FlowerButterfly & bee
- 03FruitBird & bat
- 04SeedNew habitat
The edible forest
An orchard
shared with life.
Noka’s fruit trees are not treated as a separate plantation. They sit within the living landscape, extending the flowering calendar for pollinators and the fruiting calendar for people, birds, squirrels and bats.
The Indian orchard
Mango · Chikoo · Jamun · Jackfruit · Amla · Ber · Bael · Imli · Wood apple
Fruit for many seasons
Mulberry · Fig · Karonda · Falsa · Custard apple · Starfruit
The citrus grove
Mosambi · Santra · Kinnow · Malta · Pomelo · Grapefruit
Experimental harvests
Plum · Peach · Nectarine · Grape · Olive
Who the landscape is for
Room for the
return of life.
Wildlife cannot be installed on a schedule. It returns when water, food, shelter and quiet are allowed to coexist. These are the visitors the growing habitat is intended to support—not a promise of sightings, but an invitation to nature.
Among flowers
Honey bees, solitary bees, carpenter bees, butterflies, moths and hoverflies can move through a continuous sequence of flowering trees, shrubs, herbs and climbers.
Within the canopy
Fruit, nectar, insects and protected branches create habitat for bulbuls, sunbirds, white-eyes, barbets, parakeets, koels, mynas, treepies and other resident birds.
Along the water
Quiet shallows, planted banks and open water are being shaped for dragonflies, frogs and visitors such as kingfishers, pond herons, egrets, cormorants, lapwings, stilts, moorhens and seasonal ducks.
Designed to become wilder
Not a garden.
A growing legacy.
Planting begins with structure—canopy, understory, shrub, grass, climber and ground layer—then allows nature to find its own balance. As shade deepens, leaf litter forms and water stays longer in the soil, the reserve should become more self-sustaining with every season.
Read the Noka philosophyA private introduction