Have you ever seen a prairie dotted with delicate, pale blue flowers? That may have been Blue Flax, or Linum lewisii. It’s a hardy yet beautiful plant to witness in nature, and luckily, you can grow ...

Fashion designer Patrick Grant has helped to lead the project to grow flax in Blackburn and turn it into linen Back in April a team of about 30 volunteers started work on a grand plan - to grow ...

Gardeners of all levels love finding beautiful and easy-to-grow species for their gardens. If you’re on the lookout for this ...

It takes about 100 days for flax to grow from seed to harvest. Traditionally in Ireland the seed was sown on St Patrick’s Day and harvested on the 12th July.

Grower Jossie Ellis found flax to be a fast-growing and easy crop to manage, with impressive resilience. "It took about 20 minutes to sow about 90 square metres of bed and then we have ignored it.

The Ulster-Scots descendants of these original settlers, tended to grow their own flax that was then spun and woven into fabric in their homes and cottages dotted across Ulster. The process of ...