I took my daughter to RHS Rosemoor yesterday and we passed a border with some Aconitum planted in it. I immediately grabbed her hand and shouted " WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE " and ran to save our lives. She's 32, but we can never be too careful.
I keep hoping I'll see those folk to get some seed too, but I don't always go that way, and they tend to cut them down, so I'm not sure they even lave them until they get to that stage. I don't really like blue anyway, so it's no great loss.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
That would be really kind of you @Lyn Philippa has my address. I've just sent her some Ipomoea Black Knight, and I've got thousands of them, if you want any of those?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have never known monkshood to be invasive either and they are such lovely plants I'd be happy if they did into bigger clumps and give me more free plants. Great for pollinators too.
They look glorious. It is the bumble bees who love it that delight me the most. I have seen some in a large country garden, but I have never had one in my garden until now. I just brought seeds and will sow a few either this autumn or in early spring.
This is where I bought the seeds that just arrived this week, Obelixx, costing just £3 per lots of seeds. I bought the Baker's Variety. I also want the Red Wine.
If someone is uneasy about having a certain plant in the garden then they should remove it. BUT I have monkswood growing under a tree in the shade and because of this it is the last plant to flower in my garden. Bees love it in mid October when everything else is dying. BTW I have handled Helleborus for years without gloves (didn't know!) and never had ill effects.
If you consider the hundreds, / thousands of folk who propagate, handle these " poisonous " plants in nurseries, delivering them to garden centres, folk handling them in GCs , and folk planting them / growing, cutting back etc in their gardens, surely there is no real evidence that these plants pose any real danger. Caution is good: paranoia is bad.
I think that we all have different levels of caution, @Hostafan1. Busy mums with 2 or 3 youngsters running around need eyes in the back of their heads, as well as the front. They just cannot watch over every one for every minute and so we put stoppers on cupboard doors, hide away anything that could fall/break/spill or cut, stair gates.... The list is endless. Avoiding poisonous plants is just part of the routine.
I'm one of 5 children who grew up in a garden which was regularly showered with poisonous rowan berries, and enclosed by poisonous privet. We all make it to adulthood
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I keep hoping I'll see those folk to get some seed too, but I don't always go that way, and they tend to cut them down, so I'm not sure they even lave them until they get to that stage.
I don't really like blue anyway, so it's no great loss.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Philippa has my address. I've just sent her some Ipomoea Black Knight, and I've got thousands of them, if you want any of those?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This is where I bought the seeds that just arrived this week, Obelixx, costing just £3 per lots of seeds. I bought the Baker's Variety. I also want the Red Wine.
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Caution is good: paranoia is bad.
We all make it to adulthood