Woad , weld and madder

Today Brian and I have been to Teresinha and Mike Roberts allotment at Walsall rd allotments Birmingham . The different allotments are beautiful with interesting vegetables and flowers growing together. Teresinha grows lots of dye plants , plants to make paper. as well as the usual fruit and vegetables. We dug up some weld which has a beautiful shape , woad , Japanese indigo , genista tinctoria and some Madder which was a bit of a pig to dig up ! Now we're on the way home with a car full of interesting plants for the show garden. Please check out Terasinha's website www.wildcolours.co.uk for more info about natural dyes and seeds