Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 6 JulyA Purple Tiger pepper on 6 July, its stems near-black with pale green ribs running up them and every flower stalk looped over in a full hook, one bud still shut with violet running down each petal seam, wet through after rain.Week of 6 JulyA Purple Tiger pepper on 7 July with its flowers hanging face-down as lilac stars veined deeper purple, the leaves above them blotched cream over dark green, and the rain itself showing in streaks against the treeline behind.Week of 6 JulyA Purple Tiger pepper on 9 July, three or four flowers open and a dusty lavender instead of the usual cream — the whole plant silvered under kaolin heavy enough to read as variegation, its splash marks still following where the droplets ran and pooled.Week of 6 JulyOn 9 July a crown of leaves variegated every which way — some almost blackish-green, some half cream-white, others splashed and speckled along the midrib — the nodes and newest growth flushed purple-black, a chalky spray streaked over all of it.Week of 20 JulyA low shrub on 20 July, its stems near-black and kinked at every node and its small leaves marbled cream over green, a few gone almost wholly white, with nodding five-lobed stars beneath them, dark at the margin and pale at the throat, and no fruit at all.
