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A native to Europe, known also as yellow ox-eye and golden marguerite. These wonderful flowers have large lemon-yellow daisy heads and grow to 2 feet high. It is an extremely effective dye plant and the yellows obtained are strong and crisp. The flowers can also be used in teas. A short-lived perennial. Certified Organic Average [...]
This plant came from the Hopi people of Arizona and New Mexico, and is so-called because the stems were used to make a food colouring for their ‘Piki’ bread. The leaves can be used like spinach, and are an excellent source of many vitamins and minerals. The plants can grow up to 1.4m, the flowers [...]
A statuesque biennial. Tall spikes with small pale yellow flowers. Blooms appear in early June. An ancient dye plant used by the Romans to colour vestal robes. Certified Organic Average Seeds Per Pack: 100
Repatriated from the Vavilov Institute for Plant Genetic Resources in Russia by Irish Seed Savers, this is an Irish bred flax variety of note. Referenced by Dr. GDH Bell (Cambridge) in his book 'Cultivated Plants of the Farm' 1948, he explained that "pre 1940's the flax grown for the United Kingdom, by Ireland, had been of [...]
Woad has been used for centuries to obtain a blue dye. Though the extraction process is elaborate, it is easy to grow this ancient plant and, as nature and culture writer Richard Mabey says, ‘it's worth having in the garden’. An attractive plant with 1m high stems, long, succulent, blueish leaves that shine like stained [...]
Once known as ‘the mother of herbs’ with many uses. Being very aromatic it is a good insect repellent, indeed even the name possibly comes from old English meaning ‘Midge plant’. A tall plant with yellow or reddish brown flowers and a silvery fuzz on the leaves, used as a yellow dye, as flavouring in [...]
By Giuseppe Nacci, M.D.The Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD) is presented asa service to European citizens and as simple to apply.SEE : Directive 2004/24/EC of the European Parlament and of the Council of31 March 2004(https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L::2004:136:0085:0090:en:PDF)However, close examination of its methods in practice demonstrates that thereality will be an egregious abridgement of the rights of [...]
