The Natural Dye Garden is a vibrant hub for sustainability, implementing environmentally friendly practices into the NT’s production processes, while sparking community connection and boosting mental wellbeing through creative and education experiences.

The garden space is open to the public and grows plants with non-toxic, biodegradable and renewable dyeing properties. The plants are processed in the Kors LePere Textile Studio to create natural dyes for costumes and textiles used in the National Theatre’s productions. The garden will revolutionise the theatre’s fabric dyeing methods.

The garden is used to create lengths of naturally dyed fabric that will make it easier for designers to work towards the Theatre Green Book, an industry-wide initiative to produce theatre more sustainably. It will also support the National Theatre in limiting damaging chemical waste from synthetic dyes, as well as providing a new haven for the local environment, attracting new pollinators such as hummingbird hawkmoths and sustaining the three bee hives previously installed on the National Theatre roof.