The City Nature Challenge

I participated on the City Nature Challenge 2018, in Madrid, Spain. Our observations are on a similar application called Natusfera (http://natusfera.gbif.es/projects/biomaraton-madrid-cnc-2018), so I put there a total of 182 observations made in different parks in Madrid.

And also many of them were taken on the community garden in which I participate. There I grow some dye plants, such as Hopi Black Dye sunflowers, woad, marigolds, cosmos sulphureus or coreopsis tinctoria. All these observations about dye plants are now also on this project. They are 22 new observations of 19 different species. Some are cultivated and some wild, and altough I read a lot about some of them never used them O_o.

But this project is not about my practice, but about watching and learning from others, so I hope you find them useful. There are some sprouts of woad, sunflowers or sorghum. If you, like me, are eagering to see your plants grow, and don't remember which one was what, you will find useful to see how the little plants are like :).

Finally, I encourage you to show off your own dye garden, or the species you forage (remember you can obscure the coordinates of your observations, you don't need to share your home location). Don't be shy :)

Publicado el lunes, 14 de mayo de 2018 a las 03:28 PM por textileorchard textileorchard

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This is a very cool project. I may ask some textile artists I know locally what natural dyes they have used and see what I have in my observations that might be new to you!

Anotado por kitty12 hace cerca de 5 años

Thank you! That would be great, and they don't need to be new species, I'm sure you already have many! Any input is always welcome!

Anotado por textileorchard hace cerca de 5 años

And welcome to Tinctorial :)

Anotado por textileorchard hace cerca de 5 años

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