Caper Flower, a photo by malyousif on Flickr. Can’t get enough of this one. I’m always happier and more amazed every time this plant gets a flower to explode!
I bought this caper several years ago from one of the Bahrain International Garden Shows, I think it was the 2006 or thereabouts. I left it in a medium-sized pot and it did well for a while. But like with everything else, time caught up with it and I thought it had died and being …
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I drove over a waste ground this afternoon and was faced with a huge number of these flowers growing by themselves in the wild. I had to get out of my car to investigate and was gobsmacked to find out that these bushes (and plenty of them) are capers! …
Bee to the Caper, originally uploaded by malyousif. We must have 3 or 4 different kinds of bees in the garden and each seems to specialise in a kind of flower. I have no idea where they are nesting, nor did I actually look. I leave them alone and give them the freedom of the …
Caper flower (Capparis spinosa L.), originally uploaded by malyousif. The first time this plant flowers with me. I bought this herb plant, the Caper (Capparis spinosa) from the recent Bahrain Garden Show and put it in a pot by the front door on a pedestal as it has a habit of "flowing" and it looks …