Assortment - Plants for tinctures
Explore the ancient art of natural vegetable dyeing, with our assortment of 5 varieties of dye plants, and bring color into your garden.
These varieties will enable you to enter the world of "do-it-yourself" and create unique, nature-inspired creations, using all kinds of supports such as natural fibers, old textiles, canvas, etc.
From blues to reds to yellows, turn your garden into a creative workshop and experience the world of vegetable dyeing.
Sow, grow, dye and wear your eco-friendly creations with pride!
Seeds for plant dyes are sown from March to October, depending on the variety.
Varieties for Plants for plant dyes
This assortment includes :
This dyeing species, also known as Woad, can grow to over 1 m in height and, in its second year, produces a strong stem with numerous small yellow flowers, grouped in large decorative clusters.
Known since antiquity, its use as a dye developed in Europe during the Middle Ages, reaching its peak in France in the late 15th and 16th centuries. Its use then declined in favor of indigo imported from India, and ceased altogether with the invention of artificial indigo in 1897.
This easy-to-grow annual produces upright stems up to 1 m high, and all summer long, flowers with dark centers and yellow and reddish-brown cut petals. They produce beautiful yellow-orange flowers, as well as a magnificent two-tone pattern in plant printing.
This variety can reach 1.5 m in height and offers an abundance of flowers, most of them double, in a variety of colors from yellow to orange to red. When decocted, the flowers reveal hues ranging from beige to brown to yellow.
This very early radish will produce its first harvest just 2 or 3 weeks after sowing!
This messicolous and melliferous species offers an abundance of magnificent blue flowers, both edible and medicinal. Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly rare in fields.
This variety reaches 80 cm in height and produces upright stems with bushy, cut foliage. They bear an abundance of flowers, sometimes double, with orange petals hemmed in red, suitable for making vegetable dyes with notes of orange, ochre and red.
