Thursday 13 May 2010
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Dye Garden Plant List
All of the following are available from spring up to late summer:
Alkanet - red dye to foods
Bloodroot - orange, rust, reddish pink
Bronze Fennel - clear yellow
Black-eyed susan - gold and dull orange, olive green
Coreopsis - yellow
Dyer's Broom - yellow
Dyer's Chamomile - yellow
Dyer's Coreopsis - gold, orange, rusty red
Dyer's Woad - blue
Dyer's Wood ruff - reds
Elecampane - Scottish tartan blues
Heather - golden orange
Hollyhock - yellow, gold, brown
Indigo - red, brick, coral
Lady Mantle - yellow
Purple Basil - dark browns
Rose Mallow - browns, black
Tansy - yellow/gold, olive green
Weld - yellow
Yarrow - yellow
Yellow Comos - orange
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