Linky Stone Park

Linky Stone Park. The Children's Garden. , Linky Stone Park is home to the Children's Garden today, but it was a very different place in the early 1900s while Greenville was evolving from a farming town to a textile (cloth) producing city. Stone Manufacturing was founded here and its dresses, slips and sleepwear were designed and made in a building that once stood where the park is today. The Stone family later generously granted the land to the City for the enjoyment of all as a park. , The plants here are all used in making and dyeing cloth. Try to find the plants described below. Then try your hand at weaving -- pick the tall grasses growing around the weaving loom, and weave them in and out to create patterns. Enjoy! , Black Hollyhock , Althea roses "Nigra" , Growing to 5' tall, lavender and mauve dye is made with these dark purple flowers. , Dyers Coreopsis , Coreopsis auriculata , Yellow, green, and brick red dye is made from these bright yellow flowers and seeds. , Golden Marguerite , Anthemis tinctoria , Covered in yellow daisy-like flowers with lacy foliage, this plant produces yellow, bluff, and orange dye. , Hopi Red Dye Amaranth , Amaranthus cruentus , This plan has maroon leaves and seed heads used to make red dye. , Indigo , Indigofera tinctoria , This plant's peach pea-type blossoms produce short woody pods. When the plant is in full flower, the leaves are harvested for beautiful blue dye. , Weld , Reseda luteda , This plant produces brilliant yellow dye, and when combined with wood, creates rich green dye. , Woad , Isatis tinctoria , This bush has little yellow flowers that produce deep purple pods. The leaves produce blue dye..