Weed, ointment, snack?
Month: November 2020
Dye plants, Dyestuffs and natural fibres
Bee-plants – Compositae
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One of a series of drawing by K Owen in the 1980s: the common mallow goes unnoticed or pulled out as a garden weed, but, like other mallows, its mucilage was once prized as a poultice or ointment.
Selection of dye plants, dyestuffs and dyed fibres – the Living Field’s 5000-years of natural Dyes
Memories of summer – some of the Garden’s best bee-plants among the Compositae (Living Field collection, first published 2019)
sustainable croplands