Forum home› Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Deadly growing.

2

Posts

  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    Anyone had any success taking cuttings from it?
    in the UK.
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    Took a cutting. It has now rooted! God I love plants. It feels so rearding when you create something yourself. Here is the cutting. I transplanted it into this bigger pot and it’s doing well.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    That reminds me, I have had one in a pot for almost a year now. Must get it planted out. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    So it survived winter?
    did you take it indoors?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Thedarkone said:
    So it survived winter?
    did you take it indoors?
    no, it's a native plant in the UK, I only grow hardy plants, I'm too lazy to be bringing stuff indoors. It's still small, I was given it in a tiny pot of very hard soil (last August) and there it stayed til about a month ago. Looks better now in a larger pot


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    I can't see the problem at all with a plant that is native and was grown in cottage gardens for centuries for its medicinal properties. Remember my Dad nurturing a lovely specimen in the garden for years. Always thought it was better that I saw it and was warned not to eat the berries, rather than it was eradicated.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    GemmaJF said:
    I can't see the problem at all with a plant that is native and was grown in cottage gardens for centuries for its medicinal properties. Remember my Dad nurturing a lovely specimen in the garden for years. Always thought it was better that I saw it and was warned not to eat the berries, rather than it was eradicated.
    you are right Gemma, it's the modern ignorance and fear of anything remotely wild that's dangerous



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    nutcutlet said:
    GemmaJF said:
    I can't see the problem at all with a plant that is native and was grown in cottage gardens for centuries for its medicinal properties. Remember my Dad nurturing a lovely specimen in the garden for years. Always thought it was better that I saw it and was warned not to eat the berries, rather than it was eradicated.
    you are right Gemma, it's the modern ignorance and fear of anything remotely wild that's dangerous

    We have wild foxglove in the front garden, I have plenty of cultivars in pots for next year too. Self seed like crazy, be a shame if we all stopped growing them for fear of poisoning a neighbour!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Up until my daughter was about 8 our neighbour had a laburnum tree. We both  warned our the children not to eat the seeds and they didn't. Our pets didn't eat them either. All survived.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    I've had Deadly-Nightshade growing for years in my garden ; flowers prolifically every June and has an abundance of fruit in late -summer .
    I appreciate its longevity and the almost sense of mystery that surrounds this plant .
    No children ever ate any berries (but my neighbours can if they want to) .
    I grow many ornamental members of the Solanaceae ; love them all .
Sign In or Register to comment.