Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneCulantro on 6 June, flat ground-hugging rosettes whose leaves radiate out almost level and taper back to the crown, each edged to the very tip in fine regular saw teeth like pale stiff points, a few water droplets still held on them in soft overcast light.Week of 22 JuneCulantro on 24 June, four flat rosettes lying out horizontal instead of standing up, each leaf a single blade widest near its rounded tip and cut all round the margin into regular forward-pointing spine-tipped teeth, in hard sun from the left.Week of 29 JuneCulantro on 29 June, four rosettes all run up at once, each flat whorl of saw-toothed strap leaves throwing up a stalk whose spine-tipped bracts spread star-fashion around tight green knots of flower, the whole planting beaded with water.Week of 29 JuneCulantro on 29 June with two spiny thistle-like heads pushed up out of one flat rosette of saw-toothed leaves, standing in soaked mix where pooled water has taken up the reflection of the whole sky, under flat shadowless light.
