Grow your own dye garden!
Butterfly Pea - Clitoria ternetea
Our only dye plant that is not meant for use on textiles - butterfly pea is grown for use as a food dye. All parts of the plant are edible, and the flowers are used to colour drinks such as tea or foods such as rice a soft blue purple colour. The addition of an acid such as lemon shifts the colour to pink. A fun way to take your natural dyeing to the kitchen.
Begin indoors 4 weeks before last frost, or direct seed after frost danger has passed. Take care not to disturb roots when transplanting. Plant in a sunny location and keep evenly moist but not soggy.
Annual
Zones 9-11 as a perennial, or 2-8 as an annual
When to sow: spring
Ease of germination: easy
Family: Leguminosae
Colourfastness: None on textiles
This listing is for a packet of seeds containing around 10 seeds.
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