Badger Crafts
Dye Plants and Seeds
Plants are available in Spring and Summer, please contact us to discuss placing an order. All plants are £5 for a 9cm pot, £8 for a 13cm pot.
Please see below for seeds
Dyer’s Chamomile plants
Cota tinctoria syn. Anthemis tinctoria
Bushy, short-lived evergreen perennial. Divide or mound-layer every 2 years to keep it going strong.
9cm pot £5
13cm pot £8
Dyer’s Greenweed plants
Genista tinctoria
Vigorous evergreen shrubs which respond well to being cut back. In the pea family, so boost soil fertility by fixing nitrogen.
9cm pot, 10-20cm tall £5
11cm pot, 25-50cm tall £8
Hedge Bedstraw plants
Galium album syn. Galium mollugo
Sprawling perennials make great groundcover, or grow through pea sticks or other plants for a more upright form.
9cm pot £5
13cm pot £8
Lady’s Bedstraw plants
Galium vernum
Sprawling, low perennials make great groundcover. Spreads slowly via rhizomes, but not nearly as invasive as madder.
9cm pot £5
13cm pot £8
Madder plants
Rubia tinctorum
Scrambling, semi-evergreen perennial climbers to 2m. Grow as groundcover, or through pea sticks for a more upright form. Spreads strongly through vigorous rhizomes, so plant in a large container or a separate bed.
9cm pot £5
13cm pot £8
Tansy plants
Tanacetum vulgare
Tall herbaceous perennials with herb-scented leaves. Can spread in rich, moist soil, but usually easily contained.
9cm pot £5
13cm pot £8
Dye Plant Seeds
- Common Madder Rubia tinctorum
- Dyer’s Chamomile Cota tinctoria syn. Anthemis tinctoria
- Dyer’s Coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria
- Dyer’s Cosmos Cosmos sulphureus
- Dyer’s Greenweed Genista tinctoria
- Dyer’s Woodruff Asperula tinctoria
- Hedge Bedstraw Galium album syn. Galium mollugo
- Japanese Indigo Persicaria tinctoria
- Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum
- Weld Reseda luteola
- Woad Isatis tinctoria
