Ornamental Peppers at Brookside Gardens

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.

9 Comments

Andy on November 19, 2008 at 7:48 am

They’re great… remind me of the large Christmas lights.

Grace on November 19, 2008 at 8:35 am

Your photos are so refreshing. Ditto the Christmas lights.

cindydyer on November 20, 2008 at 2:44 am

Hi Patty….awwww…looks like two people beat me to the Christmas lights comparison! Love the raindrops on the peppers, too. Thanks for sharing.

Patty Hankins on November 20, 2008 at 6:32 am

Thanks everyone. When I saw the peppers the first thing I thought of was Christmas lights as well. Guess great minds all think alike 🙂

Mike Palmer on November 21, 2008 at 9:37 am

Great pops of color!!!

linda wallace on August 28, 2009 at 8:58 pm

ARE THESE PREINIALS OR ANNUALS

hankinslawrenceimages on August 29, 2009 at 5:12 am

Linda – I’m afraid I don’t know if they are perrenials or annuals. I photographed them at a local garden rather than in my own garden. Sorry I can’t be more help

Janet on September 21, 2009 at 1:28 pm

I heard these little peppers could be placed in a glass decorative bottle with herbs and extra virgin olive oil – to be used as flavoring for cooking or just for decoration. Wondering if anybody knows how to process fresh veg’s and herbs in order for them to stay preserved.

Thanks

jason on July 28, 2011 at 12:50 pm

I have one of these plants growing on my railing. The little peppers are quite hot. I plan to dry them and grind them down and use as a spice.