Making natural shades of Green dye

- Artemisia species provide a range of greens from baby's breath to nettle green.
- Artichokes
- Barberry root (wool was dyed a greenish bronze-gold)
- Black-Eyed Susans - bright olive/apple green
- Broom - (stem) green
- Camellia - (pink, red petals) - green
- Chamomile (leaves) - green
- Coneflower (flowers) - green
- Dogwood - (fruit) greenish-blue
- Foxglove - (flowers) apple green
- Grass (yellow green)
- Hydrangea (flowers) - alum mordant, added some copper and it came out a beautiful celery green
- Larkspur - green - alum
- Lilac - (flowers) - green
- Lily-of-the-valley (light green) be careful what you do with the spent dye bath. The plant is toxic so try to avoid pouring it down the drain into the water supply.
- Mulga Acacia - (seed pods) - green
- Nettle
- Peach - (leaves) yellow/green
- Peppermint - dark kakhi green color
- Pigsweed (entire plant) yellow green
- Plantain Roots
- Pomagrante – with alum anywhere from orange to khaki green.
- Purple Milkweed - (flowers & leaves) - green
- Queen Anne's Lace - pale green
- Red onion (skin) (a medium green, lighter than
forest green)
- Red Pine (needles) green
- Saffron - (petals) blue/green
- Snapdragon - (flowers) - green
- Sorrel (roots) - dark green
- Spinach (leaves)
- Tea Tree - (flowers) green/black
- White Ash - (bark) - yellow
- Yarrow - (flowers) yellow & green shades































































References: pioneer thinking