#dead nettle

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[ghost-shepherdess]

cotton samples dyed with white dead-nettle (lamium album) !! cooler toned fabrics are just dead-nettle, the warmer brownish scraps had been pre-dyed yellow with pomegranate rinds

this was a very small experiment to confirm whether dead-nettles yielded dye as their stinging cousins 🌿 the extraction process lasted two days and 3 steepings (although i believe two steepings would've been enough!)

my partner said these look a bit like bog finds :'^) love that comparison

[homeofhousechickens]

Remember that this is the perfect time to forage from some dead nettle and henbit! I have harvested some for my birds to forage after it has been washed.

Usually people like to eat the younger shoots of henbit because it is more palatable but you dont have to, you can also eat it raw. Of course chickens love the stuff.

Here is a good comparison between dead nettle and henbit, both are edible and safe but always make sure to do your own research before foraging. They are commonly found near each other and are very prolific this time of year.

[heather-rajendran]

Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) wildflower photo I took 30/03/2024, near Smeaton, West Yorkshire, UK

[shutterandpencil]

"Emerging from Dead Nettle Forest"

Well, when you're very smol, a patch of dead nettle looks like a forest.

[ambshear]

1st Dead Nettle of the year.

[thejadearia]

Spring 2023~

Sorry I’ve been away for so long. I’ve had a pretty bad health situation since my last post which was several months ago… I’m just now starting to be able to take walks again so I hope I can get some interesting photos this year!

[sdv-aesthetics]

Window tulips 🌷 🩷💛💚🩵🌷

[filtertoomuch]

[vikingwitchsworld]

Happy to have this beautiful dead nettle ( Lamium purpureum ) !!

The essential oil obtained from the plant is characterized by a high content of germacrene D. The oil obtained from the seeds of the red dead nettle contains lamenalenic acid. The plant also contains phenylethanoid glycosides lamiosides A, B, C, D and E and flavonol 3-O-glucoside-6 "-O-malonyl transferase, quercetin, vitamin C. 🌿🌿🌿

[poppyflo2]

[thepotentialof2007]

Living things don’t all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a silver leaf like a path no one can use, a shallow lake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.

- Louise Gluck, excerpt from Lamium

[k-kasey]

[ion-a]

June 28th 2022

[heather-rajendran]

White deadnettle (Lamium album) wildflower photo I took 30/03/2024, near Smeaton, West Yorkshire, UK

[honoringthor]

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