I wonder if it has occurred to anyone in the environment and agriculture fields that the caper bush could be used for embellishment.

It must be the plant that produces the most abundant crop of flowers. Its advantage is that dainty flowers come to bloom even as others die out.

It is a deciduous plant, which becomes just a clump of twigs when it is out of season. But planted between evergreen creepers the plant's disadvantage would not be so obtrusive.

Surely it would be the ideal choice to embellish the glaringly vacant sights large walls create.

They would have to be planted above people's reach of course. Anyone picking their fruit for fish sauce would be spoiling the spectacle because it is that fruit which produces the dainty flower.

Roger Mifsud,

Rabat.