Excellant photography my friend. Pics belong in a magazine. Your camera skills are on par with your gardening skills
Annie—Do they call you, “Poke Salad Annie”. Sorry to hear about your grandmother, BTW. that dye mix looks good. I can imagine that it works very well. Daniel— cheers. I too often forget to look closely at what is going on over in the flower plots. I am very glad you liked the fotos. Oh, hang on— maybe you were commenting on Annie’s posting, because that really is interesting. Jersey— woah! What a. Ice thing to say. Thank you. As for the gardening though; well mate, I am hardly in your class am I. You have such a professional- looking set-up there. Sometimes I wish that we had bought a house rather than this apartment. Then I would have had the land to get really serious. We talked about moving up to Friesland proper when we bought this, but in the end chose for this “easy living” option with an eye on our future. Anyhow, thanks again for your very nice words.
@Sjoerd I've been called that a time or two and Annie Oakley also, then some names that are much worse !!
I am very interested in dye plants this year. I've been growing my collection. I started with indigo and have added giant scabious as they grow well here. There are so many plants that do yellows and greens but harder to get to blues and reds...so far on my journey with this. I want to do a large family gathering next summer and make dying fabrics the focus. They seem to all enjoy my little parties still. At least they pretend to enjoy it to make me happy and that's OK too. I love crafting arts with my grandkids even though some are in their 20's now. I just have to keep upping the game a little. @Anniekay I chuckled at your horse experience with poke. That must have been very funny. Gosh I love horses.
Planning a party for dying fabrics sounds like fun . You can create yellow dye using strawflowers (Xerochrysum bracteatum). I grow them from seed so easy . Then throw them in a blender add water . Use a screen to separate the flower debris. Straw flowers also come in several other colors. Nice blue dye can be a beautiful color from Indigo/ baptisia grow well here too . I have saved seeds from them and hope to plant more this fall. .
Oughh Pretty !! I didn't know they came in pink. I have no problems growing onions of any of the eating varieties but I've planted alliums for decorative purposes twice and not seen hide nor hair of them.!! And my soil is sandy and well draining like they prefer !!
Oh Annie— how sad is that! My soil is not like yours at all. It was veen-ground once but is now less sour. A pH of 6. This small allium was a gift from a colleague gardener here and I keep it neat the lottie entrance. I like it. Addendum: it is much smaller than it looks on the foto.
