{"id":1656,"date":"2025-09-15T22:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:21:20","slug":"dye-flower-harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/dye-flower-harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dye flower harvesting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1659\"  src=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1660\"  src=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1661\"  src=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>September 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been harvesting flower almost every day or every other day and it is surprising how much flower blooms each day. I feel a little bad to harvest almost all the flowers especially when the bees are around. I am taking their food away. On the other hand, as I cut the flowers, the plant does not make seeds and therefor it makes more flowers. So, in a way I am contributing to the bees&#8230; but maybe not to the plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the whole of the august to now, dyers cosmos is blooming everyday giving a lot of flowers. Sch\u00f6neauge is also blooming steadily but not as much as cosmos. Although dyers camomile gives a very nice neon yellow and I would love to have more, it is only blooming once in a while, here and there and I did not gather a lot. Now in mid September, suddenly tagetes are starting to bloom. Today, after the rain and sudden sunshine, I see a lot of tagete fully blooming. I hope I can harvest more of tagetes as they give beautiful orange dye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 14 I have been harvesting flower almost every day or every other day and it is surprising how much flower blooms each day. I feel a little bad to harvest almost all the flowers especially when the bees are around. I am taking their food away. On the other hand, as I cut the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/dye-flower-harvesting\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dye flower harvesting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_en_post_content":"<!-- wp:gallery {\"columns\":2,\"linkTo\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":1659,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-scaled.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3657-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":1660,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-scaled.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3659-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1660\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":1661,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"media\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-scaled.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3660-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1661\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>September 14<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have been harvesting flower almost every day or every other day and it is surprising how much flower blooms each day. I feel a little bad to harvest almost all the flowers especially when the bees are around. I am taking their food away. On the other hand, as I cut the flowers, the plant does not make seeds and therefor it makes more flowers. So, in a way I am contributing to the bees... but maybe not to the plant. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For the whole of the august to now, dyers cosmos is blooming everyday giving a lot of flowers. Sch\u00f6neauge is also blooming steadily but not as much as cosmos. Although dyers camomile gives a very nice neon yellow and I would love to have more, it is only blooming once in a while, here and there and I did not gather a lot. Now in mid September, suddenly tagetes are starting to bloom. Today, after the rain and sudden sunshine, I see a lot of tagete fully blooming. I hope I can harvest more of tagetes as they give beautiful orange dye.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","_en_post_name":"dye-flower-harvesting","_en_post_excerpt":"","_en_post_title":"Dye flower harvesting","_de_post_content":"","_de_post_name":"","_de_post_excerpt":"","_de_post_title":"","edit_language":"en","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerding.at\/circular_blue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}