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Planning and Growing a Botanical Dye Garden

The Learning Garden presents:
Planning and Growing a Botanical Dye Garden

Pat Strang, EMGV
Joyce Tromba, EMGV

Learn how to select and grow plants that will give you a rainbow of colors to dye any kind of fiber. Or use these plants to make inks and paints. Pat and Joyce discuss plant selection, garden design and maintenance, as well as when and how to harvest your dye plants. You will get information about where to buy seeds and seedlings, and you will learn how to save your own seeds. Dye plants are easy to grow and will connect you to the garden in a whole new way.


Table of Contents
If you would like to view a particular portion of the video, here is the Table of Contents for the program with links. The link will take you to the precise location in the YouTube video.
  0:00 Introduction
  3:12 Plant Descriptions
  4:15 Yield
  5:10 Colors:
  7:15 –Yellow
  8:51 –Red & Orange
10:27 –Blue
12:36 –Green
13:50 –Brown
16:33 The Garden:
17:45 –Growing Tips
18:33 –Garden Design
20:12 –Harvest
20:26 —Indigo
24:03 —Madder
25:22 —Weld
26:25 –Garden Layout
28:25 Questions:
28:26 Brown Dye
29:40 Soil
30:26 Elevation
30:57 Bittersweet
32:26 Saving Seeds
35:41 The Learning Dye Garden
38:18 Resources
40:25 Conclusion

Plant List from presentation

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