Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 13 JulyStrawberries on 16 July flowering in strong warm pink rather than white, dozens of blooms open above the trifoliate leaves, and beneath them the fruit setting — pale green cones studded with achenes, still wearing their withered petals, in flat light.Week of 24 AugustStrawberry plants on 26 August, flowering and setting at once in their flats — rose-pink blooms open above leaves in toothed threes, small green fruit still held in the calyx, and runners trailing out over the crate edges.Week of 24 AugustStrawberries flowering on 27 August in doubled rose-pink rather than the usual white, with one berry fully red beneath them and one still white at the shoulder, hanging on hairy stalks over leaves several of them holed clean through.
