Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 27 JulySunny Susy White Halo thunbergia on 30 July, flat white corollas each sunk to a funnel of maroon-black at the throat and the spent ones already dried to papery knobs still held on the stems, in late low light with dark woodland on the skyline.Week of 24 AugustA Sunny Susy White Halo thunbergia on 26 August, four flowers open at once on a vine twined up a hoop — five flat white petals around a throat gone almost black — on wiry purple stems, its pot wired to a fence post.Week of 31 AugustTwo flat cream discs, five overlapping petals apiece around an eye of near-black maroon, open on a wiry pink-stemmed climber up a split-rail post on 3 September — arrowhead leaves blotched pink and bronze, hard sun laying the post's shadow along the rail.
