Thanks Paul for the link. Still like the plant and don’t really see anything to worry me as I’m not planning anything stupid with it. Lovely leaves and the seed pods are stunning.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
Good link Paul, but do we know if that link is just written so as we will not be worried and then poison ourselves, 😀😀😀
I never realised that the umbrella murder was just a myth, I remember it well at the time, I was a bit reluctant to go to work on the train and used the bus for a while instead, but then as a girl of about 16 I suppose I could be excused for being scared.😱
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I've suggested no such thing. Caution is good: paranoia is bad. Who is likely to store seeds "in an open pot on a kitchen counter"?
I do! Temporarily of course...when I collect seeds I often have them lying on newspaper on kitchen counter for a day or two to make sure they are dry before I store them.
Depending if there perennial castor oils or not i would save the seeds for the annual castor olis for next year because then you wont have to go out and buy seeds or if its perennial you can save the seeds and grow more then you could have a real jungle look in the garden !
Out of interest I over wintered 6 Ricinus communis in my greenhouse last year. All survived but the plants are no bigger than those I grew from seed in the spring I won't be bothering to do it again.
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Maybe you are thinking about false Castor oil plants [ Fatsia japonica ]
The seeds are quite happy to be kept dry, moisture will cause them to rot.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border