Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 6 JulyAn Alaska Mix nasturtium on 8 July, down to its first two leaves — each a blue-green shield joined to its stalk dead at the center, pale veins running out like spokes to a wavy edge — with a second, smaller seedling half lost beside it in flat overcast light.Week of 20 JulyA seedling on 21 July whose round leaves each take their stalk dead center underneath, eight or nine pale veins running out from that point like spokes, half of them broken into sharp-edged cream sectors and one gone almost wholly ivory, in flat light.Week of 20 JulyAn Alaska Mix nasturtium on 21 July, half its round leaves broken into broad butter-cream islands along one edge while the rest stay plain green, several traced by pale winding tracks, massed scarlet blurring past in the next bed below.Week of 10 AugustAn Alaska Mix nasturtium on 15 August, one scarlet-orange flower open over shield-shaped leaves marbled cream and green, its five notched petals veined deeper red and closing on a small gold throat lined with orange, in dim dusk light.Week of 17 AugustAlaska Mix nasturtiums on 20 August with two colors open at once — clear yellow-orange held up on long stalks above deep scarlet lower down, every throat lined with fine crimson — over shield leaves marbled cream, in long evening shadows.
