For a number of years we’ve tried a range of different approaches to try and save a very old and rather diseased and fungal apricot tree in the garden. The reason for this was largely sentimental rather than practical connecting us, via my parents-in-law, to the person who previously lived in this house and farmed the surrounding land on behalf of the landowner prior to the abolition of share cropping from the 1960s*. In the … More Natural Dyeing Experiments: Apricot Bark & Root