DTM was driving around the Maldon-Newbridge area this week, marvelling at the beautiful green rolling landscape when a radio report came on warning the green was the harbinger of massive fire threat come summer.

It sort of took the gloss off it.

Then we noticed the spring weather which filled our tanks, lakes, dams, reservoirs and sparked an explosion of plants was indeed, very dangerous.

The CFA warned about it. This was followed by warnings about the warming weather drawing out itinerant scam artists, more threats of flooding, crop failures, more feral pests and an explosion in the amount of mozzies.

Must say we’ve noted that one. They’re the size and ferocity of F18 attack jet fighters.

Weather authorities should warn the outbreak of weather has sparked an unprecedented wave of warnings.

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So, DTM will get in on the act.

To the young woman seen digging up some lovely yellow flowering plants by the roadside at the bottom of Pieper’s Hill last weekend, we issue a warning. You should have looked it up.

It’s described as, “a species of tristylous flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae.”

Yep, better known as oxalis pes-caprae … or soursob.

This South African garden thug is one of the most virulent weeds known to man or beast.

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It must be the season for weird garden stuff.

We’d also like to issue a warning to the bloke zooming along the Calder Freeway near Ravenswood on Sunday.

He had a trailer on the back which contained two small potted fruit trees and a towering potted palm tree – which at 110kph was doing an incredibly good impersonation of a palm tree in the middle of Hurricane Matthew.

We doubt its shredded leaves will recover anytime soon.