Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 29 JuneA Sweet Bay on 29 June, its leathery leaves crimped and rippling in and out along every edge over red-brown wood, the newest pair at each tip still soft and bronze-gold, standing in warm dim indoor light with no sun on it at all.Week of 27 JulyA Sweet Bay laurel on 30 July, every leaf leathery with a crimped undulating edge and a pale yellow midrib, deep green on the old wood and yellow-green at the shoot tips, beaded all over from a shower that has left the black boards behind it streaked.Week of 3 AugustA Sweet Bay laurel on 5 August pushing a whole leading shoot of soft yellow-green out of dark matte older leaves, every one of them crimped and undulate at the margin, rain-wet under flat gray light with magenta petunia crowding in from the left.
