Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 22 JuneA wineberry cane arching over rough grass, hung with clusters of red and near-black fruit among toothed green leaves, woodland and long grass filling the ground behind.Week of 29 JuneTen berries laid out in a diamond on 29 June, each built of thirty or forty glossy drupelets with white bloom caught in the seams, running from bright red through wine to near-black, the darkest one hollow where it pulled free of its core.Week of 29 JuneA dozen picked berries on a honey-colored board on 29 June, each built of rounded drupelets gone purple-black with patches of bright magenta still showing through, and one orange-red spot of juice bled into the wood between them.Week of 6 JulyA wild bramble thicket on 7 July with no bed or edge to it, its canes crossing at every angle and the fruit at three stages at once — green-bronze held upright, pink-red, and a few gone purple-black under a whitish bloom, beaded with water.
