Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA Sweet Chocolate pepper on 6 June, six or seven glossy leaves quilted between impressed veins and one at the crown rolled inward into a tube, its newest growth still pale, indoors under strip lights that push a soft shadow forward across the table.Week of 22 JuneA Sweet Chocolate pepper on 27 June with one flower nodding open at a leaf axil, cream-white with five broad rounded lobes and the pale style showing, its dark undulating leaves beaded all over from rain that has only just stopped.Week of 6 JulyA Sweet Chocolate pepper eaten into a false shape on 9 July, bites taken clean out of the leaf margins until each blade reads as deeply lobed while the tissue between stays untouched — the plant alongside holding pale green fruit pointing up and out.
