Black Hollyhock Seed seeds natural dye plant

$5.99
25 seeds per packet. Grown and collected from my gardens in 2020.

Hollyhock flowers are a fugitive natural dye, but I am offering it in case someone would like to grow it for themselves, and there are other uses for natural dyes in which someone may not be so concerned with it being very lightfast.

Ever since a gardening friend of mine gave me a couple plants last year, I am captivated with hollyhocks! They are so tall and showy, and add such charm and color to the garden. I had fun saving and drying the dropped petals. They do give a lot of blue/purple/gray color, and now I'm growing all the hollyhock colors!

Hollyhocks are a biennial flower, so they bloom the 2nd year. Once you have them going, they may well re-seed themselves, as the ripened seeds can fall and immediately begin growing, to ensure that they bloom again the following year! These can grow 5-6' tall the 2nd year when they bloom!

I dyed the yarns pictured with dried black hollyhock petals that I saved when they dropped to the ground. I didn't have a large quantity of petals, but they give a lot of color. I could have gotten purples if I had taken the yarn out of the dye bath right away, but I left the yarn in to simmer and cool overnight. The darker yarn has a greenish cast to the deep gray color, and the lighter yarn is a blue-ish gray from the exhaust bath. I really like the colors they came out as. The yarns were pre-mordanted with alum.

Hollyhock blooms are not going to be extremely lightfast, as natural dyes go when exposed to sunlight, but they are beautiful to grow and really fun to play around with.
25 seeds per packet. Grown and collected from my gardens in 2020.

Hollyhock flowers are a fugitive natural dye, but I am offering it in case someone would like to grow it for themselves, and there are other uses for natural dyes in which someone may not be so concerned with it being very lightfast.

Ever since a gardening friend of mine gave me a couple plants last year, I am captivated with hollyhocks! They are so tall and showy, and add such charm and color to the garden. I had fun saving and drying the dropped petals. They do give a lot of blue/purple/gray color, and now I'm growing all the hollyhock colors!

Hollyhocks are a biennial flower, so they bloom the 2nd year. Once you have them going, they may well re-seed themselves, as the ripened seeds can fall and immediately begin growing, to ensure that they bloom again the following year! These can grow 5-6' tall the 2nd year when they bloom!

I dyed the yarns pictured with dried black hollyhock petals that I saved when they dropped to the ground. I didn't have a large quantity of petals, but they give a lot of color. I could have gotten purples if I had taken the yarn out of the dye bath right away, but I left the yarn in to simmer and cool overnight. The darker yarn has a greenish cast to the deep gray color, and the lighter yarn is a blue-ish gray from the exhaust bath. I really like the colors they came out as. The yarns were pre-mordanted with alum.

Hollyhock blooms are not going to be extremely lightfast, as natural dyes go when exposed to sunlight, but they are beautiful to grow and really fun to play around with.