Poison Garden

[Tantalus]

Just spotted this

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1171061.html

sounds like a great opportunity for education

at least you will know what to avoid

and some of the medicinal uses of plants is a thing that has always interested me

noooo not hemp

as a kid i had asthma medicine containing belladonna

.............and now look at me :yikes:

Tant

 

[tomtom]

belladona is a commonly used homeopathic medicen.. though it, of couses, has very little or none of the actual plant in it!

 

[EdS]

we've got nearly that many poisonous plants in our garden -including poppies, Henbane, belladonna, hemlock, monkshood, wolfsbane and wormwood.

The guinea pigs seem to know which really not to eat - despite eating a rhody and the rhubarb to no effect on them. :?:

 

[Realgar]

I must get in contact with the garden organisers - I've got nearly the complete henbane genus ( just 3 or 4 species missing ), some of them capable of making you ill just through handling, a few mandrakes on the go too.
Realgar

 

[match]

I must get in contact with the garden organisers - I've got nearly the complete henbane genus ( just 3 or 4 species missing ), some of them capable of making you ill just through handling, a few mandrakes on the go too.
Realgar

Thats impressive! I had a quite substantial collection of herbs and spices growing at my parents' house - its still there, but now I no longer live there its difficult to keep it maintained. Living in Edinburgh in a flat means I don't have access to a private garden for my own growing whims. I was at one point doing very well with mints though - about 23 species or so... Now I mostly content my herbal needs with foraging - both wild and not-so-wild places (at least when the neighbours aren't looking )

 

[EdS]

Realgar,

Check out Nicky's nursery in Kent they have a good collection of plants.


http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/