Plants are used to make and dye all kinds of clothing, from t-shirts to blue jeans. Growing in the Cloth and Color Garden are cotton, indigo, flax, and dye plants. Also here is Teasel (used to raise the nap on cloth), soapwort (for washing) and lavender (for scenting clothes). The weaving frame in the forground demonstrates how fabric is woven.

Flax (for linen)
Fuller's Teasel
Dyers Coreopsis
Madder (a red dye)
Navaho Dye Plant
Lavender 'Lady' (used to scent fabrics)
Indigo (a dye plant, the blue in your blue jeans)
Ramie (for fabric)
Luffa Sponge

Pharmacy Garden
Science Discovery Garden
4-H Granite Diamond
Cloth and Color Garden