Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 27 JulyGold Rush beans breaking ground on 28 July, each shoving up in a crook that drags two fat seed leaves out still clasped face to face, the older ones already straightened under a puckered heart-shaped pair, a weed rooted in the flagstone joint alongside.Week of 27 JulyTwo things starting on 28 July in wet bark, a thick shoot standing in a tight hook and creamy yellow on the lit face where it turns green over the bend, and beside it a pale seed on the surface with a stout white shoot pushed out of one end, its tip browned.Week of 27 JulyGold Rush beans on 30 July, thirty in rough rows and every leaf puckered and bubbled between its veins, a fleshy cotyledon still folded at each node with the next shoot rising between, and white clover matted right up against the row on the left.Week of 24 AugustGold Rush beans on 27 August, five plump cream-white buds ranged along one short raceme with more opening below them, each keeled bud held in its own green calyx, over leaves in threes with fine hairs standing along the veins.Week of 31 AugustGold Rush beans from underneath on 2 September, a spray of cream-white flowers with the keel curled sideways on the open ones and the rest still tight in bud, the trifoliate leaves around them lit through to yellow-green by the overcast sky.Week of 31 AugustGold Rush beans from directly above on 2 September, a short cluster of cream-white flowers and plump pale buds sitting exactly where three stems meet, ringed by heart-shaped leaves deeply parallel-veined and half of them in shadow.Week of 21 SeptemberGold Rush beans on 21 September, a heap of pencil-thin wax pods snapped rather than cut, most still wearing a short woody pedicel and green calyx collar, a few shading green at shoulder and tip. Soft light from the upper left across a rumpled white cloth.Week of 21 SeptemberGold Rush bean on 22 September, a fan of six or seven round waxy pods hanging from one swollen node, shading from pale green at the stem end to clear yellow at the fine curved tips, downy in soft overcast light.
