Excited by my garden dye material harvest
After a number of months being very busy with my family, I have managed finally to get into my studio this week. What a mess. There were flowers and leaves drying everywhere, such quite a bumper harvest from my garden this year. Coreopsis Harvest My coreopsis plant has really settled in , and I have cut blooms all summer long. The dried flowers are light as a feather and I have just over 100g in storage. Adjacent to it my rudbeckia plant is not nearly so happy. The harvest of flowers is very poor less than 25g. I think I will probably dig it up and relocate it. ' French Marigold bumper harvest In the spring I was given some small French marigold plants, and they have done very well. They were not the same variety as I grew last year, so I hope they will be as successful at producing a…