A dye garden is not just a pretty border with a craft project attached. If you want enough color for cloth or yarn, you have to think like a grower. Which plant part gives the dye? How much biomass will you need? Can you harvest without wrecking the shape of the garden in one afternoon? Cambridge University Botanic Garden highlights…
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A dye garden changes how you look at plants. A flower is no longer only a flower. A root is not only storage. A leaf may be a blue waiting for the right chemistry. Even onion skins, walnut hulls, and fallen leaves begin to look like a second harvest. People used plant, mineral, and insect dyes for centuries before synthetic…

