by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 4, 2010 | New Photos, Solanaceae Family
Chinese Five Color Peppers (c) 2010 Patty Hankins
I’ve just added a new photo – Chinese Five Color Peppers – to my Beautifulflowerpictures.com website. Chinese Five Color Peppers (Capsicum annuum) are an ornamental edible pepper. As the peppers ripen, the change color from purple to red to orange to yellow to white.
This photograph is available as a 8X12″ gallery-wrapped canvas. You can order Chinese Five Color Peppers from my website and I will have it available at shows this year.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Oct 21, 2009 | Flowers, Solanaceae Family
One of the things I discovered while I was photographing the pepper collection at the National Arboretum was the wonderful variety of shapes and colors of peppers there are. Some of the most striking ones were either red or green.
The first set I photographed were just labeled Capiscum Pepper without any info about the specific variety. I really like the dark green of the peppers contrasting with the light green of the leaves.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
The Bishop’s Cap Peppers have an amazing shape. They were a challenge to photograph – I wanted to show the shape while controlling the shine of the pepper skin.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
And finally the Fish Peppers – they start out as a striped pepper in shades of green – and turn to red as they ripen.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Fish Peppers (c) 2009 Patty Hankins
I’ll be posting the last few pepper photos from this year in a few days. It’s been great fun photographing them – and I’m looking forward to discovering more varieties next year.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Oct 13, 2009 | Flowers, Solanaceae Family
One of the varieties of peppers that I’ve photographed this fall are the Chinese Five Color Peppers – also known as Chinese Multi-Color Peppers. They are a variety of capiscum annuum. Originally from China, these peppers are edible – and very hot! As the peppers ripen, they change color from purple to cream to yellow to orange to red.
The first Chinese Five Color Pepper plant I photographed was at Longwood Gardens. Here’s a group of fully ripe red peppers.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
And a plant with all five colors of peppers
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
A few weeks later, I photographed another set of Chinese Five Color Peppers at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. The ones at the Arboretum are part of the Pepper Collection.
A cluster of purple peppers, with a few that have already changed color
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
This group has several that are in the processes of changing colors as they ripen.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
And finally, a group of peppers of all colors growing on one of the larger pepper plants.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
by hankinslawrenceimages | Oct 6, 2009 | Flowers, Solanaceae Family
I’ve recently photographed several types of peppers at local botanical gardens. As the weather starts to cool, the peppers are beginning to ripen and turn all sorts of wonderful colors. They also come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, which makes for some wonderful photographic opportunities.
At Longwood Gardens, I photographed a set of Starburst Peppers (capsicum annuum). The bright orange color of the peppers framed by the green leaves add a nice burst of fall color to a garden bed.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Another fun color combination of leaves and peppers are the Black Cuban Peppers (capsicum annuum). I photographed these at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. The Black Cuban peppers are little round balls of red or black, while the leaves are a dark purple. It’s a very striking combination to photograph.
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
(c) 2009 Patty Hankins
I’ll be posting more pepper photos in the next few days – it’s amazing how many colors and shapes of peppers I’m seeing in local gardens.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Nov 19, 2008 | Flowers, Photo Locations, Solanaceae Family
This summer, the gardeners at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland planted ornamental peppers around the sundial in the Trial Garden section of the gardens. The variety growing there this year was Capsicum Annuum – Garda Tricolore. The peppers – in all sorts of wonderful shades of red, yellow, orange and purple, grew on low plants that quickly spread to fill the area around the sundail.
Here are some of the photos of the peppers that I took in September.
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
(c) 2008 Patty Hankins
