Author Archives: Jean Beales
HOPI BLACK SUNFLOWERS
| 5th August 2020The Hopi Black sunflowers are looking beautiful in the dye garden – all 750 of them!
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NATURAL DYEING WITH GOLDENROD
| 27th July 2020Goldenrod provide nectar for migrating butterflies and bees, They look very attractive and make a very useful yellow or green dye.
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Grow your own organic Fertiliser.
| 20th July 2020I reserve an area of the dye garden for a very important and amazing herb – COMFREY. Not the common comfrey. This is BOCKING 14. (Symphytum x Uplandicum).
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Japanese Indigo
| 6th July 2020JAPANESE INDIGO (Polygonum tinctorium)
It is a member of the knotweed family
More activity in the Dye Garden
| 19th June 2020Commonly called the pot marigold (Calendula officinalis) is a cheery addition in British cottage gardens.
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THE DYER’S GARDEN 2020
| 8th June 2020This would be the time of year when visitors would come and take a look round the dye garden.
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Spring Activities 2019
| 19th April 2019Over the past two years or so I have found it difficult to find the time to blog and share my experiences with you.
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Skirting
| 15th November 2018It has been a hectic few days sorting through the alpaca fleeces and putting them into some sort of order.
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| 11th September 2018It’s been such a gorgeous late summer and early autumn so this past week or so I have been gathering in the beautiful heads of the African marigolds.
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