The Indigo plot at the Botanics is going live this Saturday with a planting event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/japanese-indigo-planting-day-at-the-indigo-plot-at-the-botanics-tickets-330506974257 If you are in the West of Scotland there is still time to join in the fun, You should book a space, it is free but we want to be able to contact you in case there is aContinue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot (late May) news – Meet the growers … Deborah”
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My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot April news – Meet the growers … Nicky
24 Home growers have embarked on that blue path of growing Japanese Indigo in Scotland with me. Small quantities but a big connection. We hope to grow plants, dye blue but also create connections between us and nature, between us as growers, farmers, dyers… I have asked them to write a few words to introduceContinue reading “My Indigo diaries 2022 – The Indigo plot April news – Meet the growers … Nicky”
From seeds to blue, in the Covid year of 2021, I grew Japanese Indigo in Scotland
Ashley Walker from Nature’s Rainbow says in his blog that “Japanese Indigo, Persicaria tinctoria or Polygonum tinctoria is a frost tender member of the knotweed family. Originally from China and Vietnam it likes to grow in warm moist climates,… ” and for that reason and others I always had in mind it would not grow in Scotland. After practisingContinue reading “From seeds to blue, in the Covid year of 2021, I grew Japanese Indigo in Scotland”
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