I love spring for all the rapid new growth that plants put on. When it warms up, but not so much that the plants are stressed.
My Australian native finger lime is loaded with flowers 
My new baby caper bush is actually putting out leaves
The overwintered capsicums have all woken from their slumber
If only just…
And the rhubarb is rapidly growing more and more monstrous.
The challenges are that the weeds are doing the same thing. The summer weeds, dormant in the cold are now springing back to life too.
Now is the time to be getting your mulch ready to suppress weeds and protect the plant roots from the soaring heat of summer.
500m2 in Sydney 
Yay! Finger lime flowers! And the caper bush is exciting, I cant wait to hear more about it as it grows up and produces.
The hot summer coming should be good for it. I hear capers love the heat- there is a fledgling caper industry in SA.
I don’t have any finger lime flowers yet and you and Louise are making me very jealous….mope….he, he, he. Where did you get your caper from – I clearly neeeeed one! Glad your caps have woken up – some of my chillies have yet to and I am starting to suspect that perhaps they wont – it was a bit colder here this year compared with last.
The caper was from Diggers. Michelle inspired me because despite being on the opposite side of the world our climates are similar.
My stick-looking chillies never woke up either. Luckily though my Tobago seasoning did and is loaded with flowers and baby fruit 🙂
What pretty little flowers. I bet they smell lovely.
I actually tried to sniff them and the pesky plant spiked me in the face!
Woo hoo, there’s your baby caper! It’s going to love your hot summers. A Finger Lime is on my gardening wish list, perhaps next year, first I must get some other projects finished around here before winter descends.
Thanks for the inspiration 🙂 Good luck with the finger lime – they are really fun to grow.