My friend Mark wanted to know the growth processes of avocados. He asked too late for me to get a picture of the flowers (which are pretty unimpressive anyway) but here are a couple of baby avocados, with my fingers in the picture to show scale.

This tree is one of the many Fuerte variants. These should be ripe along about October or November. My other tree (a Hass variant) has just finished producing fruit, and if it survives, it should start flowering in September.