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Before and After

Thursday, December 6, 2012 22:50

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Latest post from MARKSVEGPLOT – a blog about food and gardening in England”

Plants look different according to the weather and light conditions, don’t they? What I have for you today is some “contrasts”.

These Strawberry plants in their Autumn colours were photographed mid-afternoon on a sunny November day – in other words, just before it went dark! (It gets dark here at about four-o-clock these days).

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I’m particularly proud of this next photo. I really like the contrast of the deep russet leaves with the murky black background.

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Here are the same Strawberry plants a couple of days later, mid-morning, after a sharp frost.

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This is a close-up of the fruits. I somehow don’t think they will ever make it to maturity!

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This is one of my Curly Endives in the bright sunshine (with a bit of Parsley muscling-in on the shot).

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Here’s the same Endive on a frosty morning last weekend, with its leaves outlined in ice crystals.

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The Cavolo Nero is interesting in any conditions: above zero…

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or below zero…

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Like many other bloggers I know, I tend to treat my photographs as a pictorial garden diary. This is one of the reasons I take so many photos. It helps me to gauge progress, especially in relation to a similar crop in a previous year. In addition to the photos I also keep a simple list of sowing dates. I keep meaning to enhance this with the addition of harvesting dates – but I never seem to get round to it, because there is always something more interesting (or more urgent) to do!

To read more articles like this, on Gardening and Gastronomy, please visit * http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/ *

2012-12-06 22:40:47

Source: http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2012/12/before-and-after.html

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