Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 27 JulyA lantana head opening on 30 July from the outside in, the outer rings already bright magenta while the middle is still green-yellow bud, a second head beside it wholly shut, and chalky splash marks dried into the pits of the sandpapery leaves.Week of 3 AugustA lantana head on 3 August reading outward in three colors at once, cream trumpets with gold throats fully open on the rim, a band of shut magenta crosses inside them and a knot of green bud at the core, on leaves pebbled between sunken veins.Week of 3 AugustA lantana head on 5 August opening rim-inward: crimson-magenta buds still spiraled tight at the middle, a ring of cream-white faces with saturated orange eyes outside them, and the oldest ring already gone over to lilac-pink.Week of 3 AugustA lantana head on 6 August with every floret a different color, cream-white with a butter eye, lilac-pink with an orange one and deeper rose with red, around a knot of four-cornered magenta buds still shut at the middle, crinkled like crepe.Week of 3 AugustA lantana head on 6 August split by the light: cream and butter-yellow with gold throats where low sun reaches it from the right, lilac-pink with scarlet eyes on the side falling into shade, and squared rose-red buds still shut at the middle.Week of 17 AugustA lantana on 20 August, each flat-topped head ringed by age — cream-white with an orange throat at the middle, then peach, then deep rose-magenta at the rim around a core of tight crimson buds — over puckered, coarsely toothed leaves in shade.
