Daily News Photos by CRISTIAN SIMESCU Education coordinator Melanie Feltmate and other volunteers help restore the Dye and Tanning Garden on Saturday morning at the St. George Village Botanical Garden on St. Croix.

Volunteers gathered Saturday morning at the St. George Village Botanical Garden on St. Croix to replace plants that had been wiped out during Hurricane Omar.

The volunteers planted fustic, achiote, noni, divi divi, coco plum and indigo to show where originally dyes came from in nature before they were made synthetically.

Kyla Murray, 8, uses a pickaxe to help plant a cochineal cactus.

The botanical garden received a $500 mini-grant from the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands for the Dye and Tanning Garden.