Grow your own fantastic yellow dye!
These stately plants may grow over your head and reach out with dozens of big, flowery arms. Not only will you be growing a traditional dye, known and used since at least antiquity, but you’ll have beauty while you’re waiting. The plants can get a little noisy when pollinators, particularly honeybees, start foraging.
The seeds can be picky about germination, preferring freshy disturbed soils in very early spring or later in the fall. They readily self-sow if some branches are left beyond flowering, and volunteers will tolerate transplant if you must move them.
The entire plant (flowers, leaves, and stems) contains yellow dye.
Weld, Reseda luteola, is also called Dyer's Weed or Dyer's Rocket
If you have questions, send them my way: whitney@westwoodcolor.com
Grow your own fantastic yellow dye!
These stately plants may grow over your head and reach out with dozens of big, flowery arms. Not only will you be growing a traditional dye, known and used since at least antiquity, but you’ll have beauty while you’re waiting. The plants can get a little noisy when pollinators, particularly honeybees, start foraging.
The seeds can be picky about germination, preferring freshy disturbed soils in very early spring or later in the fall. They readily self-sow if some branches are left beyond flowering, and volunteers will tolerate transplant if you must move them.
The entire plant (flowers, leaves, and stems) contains yellow dye.
Weld, Reseda luteola, is also called Dyer's Weed or Dyer's Rocket
If you have questions, send them my way: whitney@westwoodcolor.com
