Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneAn Anaheim pepper on 6 June, eight or more long strap-lanceolate leaves hanging out and down over the bench edge, smooth-margined and rippled between sunken veins, its seed leaves still held at the collar, in flat dim daylight with no sun on it.Week of 15 JuneAn Anaheim pepper on 19 June, its broad blades cupped and rippled and a small round juvenile leaf still sitting in one axil, branching low already, with two more of its kind further up the bed and dry grass showing past the rail in flat bright light.Week of 22 JuneAn Anaheim pepper on 23 June, water still standing on it in fat separate beads with longer runs lying along the veins, three ribbed green buds held erect at the stem fork, and one leaf with a clean round hole chewed through it.Week of 22 JuneAn Anaheim on 24 June, one stout stem swollen at every node and forking as it climbs, a single white-tipped bud half hidden in a leaf axil two thirds of the way up, and its own shadow laid out sharp across the straw in hard midday sun.Week of 13 JulyAn Anaheim pepper on 16 July, one smooth unwrinkled green fruit hanging straight down from a sharply hooked stalk while the plants beside it are still all buds, in low late side light that throws long shadows toward the woodland behind the bed.Week of 3 AugustAn Anaheim pepper on 5 August hanging low on a sharply hooked stalk, a dozen white flowers and ovoid buds nodding face-down around it, and a nasturtium spread in along the edge with its round leaves marbled strong cream and yellow.Week of 17 AugustAn Anaheim pepper on 20 August, hooked so far back that its blunt tip swings up again, three-sided and creased down its length and still uniformly green under a coat of water, with white flowers open on the same plant in strong low sun.
