Well after a worrying winter with lots of rain causing massive leaf drop (WLD) on my limes my citrus patch seems to be thriving back in good health. Even my tempremental Budha hand is looking healthy after loosing all of it's leaves. So all of u out there with trees loosing their leaves here's proof that they may come back in warmer/dryer weather:)
PS sorry about the big image!

Not looking too bad. My Kaffir lime is dropping leaves like mad, everything else has done well with WLD this winter.

Mark_T,
I hope you put those leaves to good use! Go cook for your guests a few dinners! My wife and I are praying our leaves to drop. It got only 8 leaves atm. I think it's about 2 years old plant.

Please . . . Tell me more about cooking with the leaves. Thanks.

I slice them very finely and put them into a thai red curry. Its red curry paste, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, tofu or meat. Serve on rice! Ive also seen them thinly sliced and put into stirfrys and asian style salads.

Thanks

or thinly slice them into strip along with slice shallot. stuff into a cornish hen or small chicken. steam the whole chicken. maybe coat the outer skin with a mix of sliced lemon leave and salt.
to make a dipping sauce, mix salt, pepper or thai hot chili, lime juice and tiny strip of tender/young lime leaves, key lime leaves works well

Another use for lemon or lime leaves is when steaming or boiling seafood. throw a few leaves into the water.

If you have too much of the fresh Kafir (Thai) Lime leaves to consume them, just wash them very well, pat dry on paper towel and then freeze the leaves in a freezer ziploc bag or container. You can then pull out a few every time your recipe calls for them. I have noticed that the taste does not change on freezing, maybe a slight color variation which can occur even to the fresh leaves when cooked under high temperature too.
I collect all the fallen leaves, prunings and broken branches and freeze the leaves for later use