I seized a rare sunny day with dryish plants to start harvesting my dye plants
Gensita tinctoria - dyers green weed- this I am drying
Some of my gensita had gone to seed while I was away so I cut some to try and see what it was like to dye with in this state. Some plants lose all their colour when they have gone to seed.
Golden rod Solidago canadensis- this does not seem to dry well so I will try and dye stuff with all over the next few weeks as overdyed in indigo it gives fabulous green.
Look what is coming over.! Harvesting became a race.
Tansy Tanacetum vulgare. I am drying this this year for the first ime to see what it is like dried.
Race lost! Pouring with rain.!
Coreopsis sp. I have both this and the Coreopis tinctoria which has a much smaller flower but which is prolific. Coreposis has been very slow to flower this year as it has been such a bad summer but now it has been getting going.
