Grow Your Own Colour by Rebecca Desnos

Start a dye garden no matter how little space you have, whether it's a window box, balcony or garden. Experience the joy of growing flowers (and also Japanese indigo!) and use your plants to naturally dye cloth. This is the book I wish I'd read years ago... so I wrote it for you! Grow Your Own Colour will show you... how to start gardening if you’ve never done it before no-dig gardening methods starting seeds indoors vs direct sowing in the ground how to grow, harvest and dye with 9 different dye plants these plants are covered: Japanese indigo, Hopi Black Dye sunflower, French marigold, African marigold, dyer's chamomile, coreopsis, sulphur cosmos, purple pincushion, hollyhock (and a couple of other bonus types of cosmos). harvesting & drying flowers saving seeds & cross-pollination Read more