Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Jalapeno on 6 June, bushy already and glossy dark green, its untoothed margins waving slightly and the blades puckered between veins pressed deep — shot from standing height in flat shadowless light, the photographer's own shoes in the bottom of the frame.Week of 15 JuneA Jalapeno on 19 June, its pale stem faintly ridged and zigzagging at each node, the leaves wavy-edged but without a tooth on them and drooping out sideways below a standing tuft, everything past it thrown soft in a shallow depth of focus.Week of 22 JuneA Jalapeno on 24 June, not in flower yet: one plump ribbed bud hanging where its pedicel curves over, pale green at the base and creamy white at the closed tip, with a smaller one beside it and hard sun cutting shadows across the straw.Week of 22 JuneA Jalapeno on 27 June caught at the fork, where one fruitlet is just swelling behind its calyx between an unopened bud and the base of a spent flower, rain still hanging off every leaf edge and dark conifers standing behind out of focus.Week of 22 JuneA Jalapeno on 27 June with two fruits set side by side where the stem divides, each held in a star of curled-back calyx points and one still wearing the dried flower on its tip, the quilted leaves cupping fat droplets in bright haze.Week of 6 JulyA Jalapeno on 7 July, the first pod of the block hanging blunt-nosed and thick with its calyx clasped over the shoulder, silhouetted clean against the pale ground behind it while everything around it is still thin and chewed.Week of 6 JulyA small plant on 9 July with a knot of crumpled new leaves still folded shut in its crown and two of its largest blades bitten out in big clean crescents from the margin — one pale bud low down, too soft to read as a flower, everything beaded in early sun.
