With its unique appearance, your guests will be impressed to see this in your kitchen garden. When used to create a beautiful sauce which bursts with lemon and olive flavour, Capers make the perfect companion to a beautifully cooked steak.
This perennial plant is also ideal for pickling in vinegar for use in antipasti or pizzas.
They are rather pretty and aromatic plants but they do require dry heat and good sunlight to flourish and need to be kept in the relatively warm temperatures (above -5c). In the UK, bring them inside in the winter and treat them as a greenhouse or conservatory pot plant.
Mature caper bushes can grow three feet high and spread four or five feet.
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