We weed, we sow, we tend…
we grow our gardens and learn by doing. ♥

Verftuin de Wilde Weelde

Natural Dye Garden in the making ♥

Natural Dye Entries

Glycerine Experiment with Fig Leaves

Glycerin x Fig Experiment

Flower Pounding Tryout

Natural Dyeing with Ellysium

Natural Dyeing: Printmaking ink

Natural Dyeing with Ellysium

Natural Dyeing: Woad

Natural Dyeing with Ellysium

Natural Dyeing: Woundwort

Ecoprinten Ecoprinting Ellysium

Ecoprinting with Ellysium

Natuurlijke Inkt Analog ECO Grafische Werkplaats Natural Dye

Festival Analog ECO

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Timeline

  • 2024

     

    Something borrowed, something blue...

    After working in many communal gardens over the years, October 2024 I was lucky enough to start one that I could really call ‘my own’.

    This garden is to become a practical ‘project-space’ for my artistic endeavors, but perhaps in it’s core even more a place, in case of wandering off my own path, to always come back to ♥︎.

  • 2025

     

    Index & Structure

    2025’s focus was to get to know the garden in all seasons first, to index the plants that were already growing, and observing sun, soil and critters ♥︎.

    The only plants introduced were Calendula, Woad, Goldenrod, a Blue Grape, and some seasonal veggies, because it turned out to be very abundant already!

  • 2026

     

    Redefining ‘Dye Garden’

    In 2026 I joined the 1m2 Vlas project, added several Fruit and Berry bushes/trees, and made more ‘intervening decisions’, so I could add more traditional dye plants like Madder and Dyer’s Camomille to the garden.

    …to be continued…

Want to join me in the garden?

Send me a message if you want to help me in the garden, learn about the plants, critters and processes and share in the harvest.

I’m there every Sunday (unless I have other obligations) and other unplanned moments, whenever I can ♥

CALENDAR

Garden Day @ My Garden

November 29 @ 14:00 - 16:00ATV Loolaan

*very work in progress :)!

Dye & Ink Plants

indexed in my Herbarium

001. Isatus tinctoria

Woad - Wede

002. Solidago virgaurea

Woundwort - Echte Guldenroede

003. Calendula officinalis

Calendula - Goudsbloem

042. Ficus carica

Brown Turkey Fig - Vijgenboom

128. Coprinopsis atramentaria

Comm. Ink Cap - Grote Kale Inktzwam

197. Phytolacca acinosa

Indian Pokeweed - Oost. Karmozijnbes

BeestjesBende083. Macroglossum stellatarum