True colours
Dec 07, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS ROSANNA MORRIS
PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREW MONTGOMERY
Roots of gunnera, iris and dock, oak bark, tansy, lichen, horsetail, gorse, bog myrtle and heather – all yield dyes of some sort
a garden on the untamed west coast of Scotland, where the weather can change in a trice, grows , common madder, a plant native to the Mediterranean. “It’s quite a thing, growing madder in Scotland,” says Zoë Ritchie. “You need the weather for it. I’ve had my first crop, though.” Madder has been cultivated
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