Being an only child I used to say with my cousins quite a lot, they had a Laburnum tree in the garden, we used to feed the ‘peas’ to our dolls for dinner. They told us not to eat them and we didn’t. The thought of dying was enough for us.
My first Aconitum Plant was given to me by my daughter, she’s a child minder and having about 5 or 6 under 5’s in the garden she couldn’t take the risk. More than her jobs worth.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
My mother loved medicinal plants which monkshood is (as are most poisonous plants) She was very proud of her henbane, but the only place it would grow was in the vegetable garden, I learnt very early on not to pick it, I can actually still remember being told about it. We moved to that house when I was 18months old and left when I was 12.
While one is avoiding poisonous plants remember to remove all potatoes, tomatoes, daffs, bluebells, crocus, groundsel, comfry, laurel, wisteria, rhododenron and hydrangeas and lets not even think about foxgloves, lilly of the valley or monkshood!
I'm quite miffed though that the best "crop" of mushrooms I've found on my property are brown roll rims, typical.
I'm glad you survived @Hostafan1! I did, too, with many poisonous plants around. Happily, most children do. Nevertheless, it does no harm to be careful where you can and I would never mock those who seem a little extra cautious to those who are more robust.
I'm glad you survived @Hostafan1! I did, too, with many poisonous plants around. Happily, most children do. Nevertheless, it does no harm to be careful where you can and I would never mock those who seem a little extra cautious to those who are more robust.
I'm mocking nobody. As I said before " caution is good : paranoia isn't "
It doesn't hurt to be extra-cautious when there are small children around, particularly when they aren't your own and might not have been taught not to touch or eat plants. Maybe they come from families who don't have gardens, or just a lawn.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Just throwing this in here apropos of nothing, but many doctors specialising in allergies believe that the massive increase we have seen over the last 20-30 years, is related to society becoming adverse to any sort of dirt. Perhaps we can be too careful with our children.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good point @punkdoc , I was thinking of the more toxic types of plants not the mildly irritant ones, or good plain muck. Nothing wrong with most children getting mucky, apart from that the parents might complain when they collect them from the childminder.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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They told us not to eat them and we didn’t. The thought of dying was enough for us.
My first Aconitum Plant was given to me by my daughter, she’s a child minder and having about 5 or 6 under 5’s in the garden she couldn’t take the risk. More than her jobs worth.
As I said before
" caution is good : paranoia isn't "
Perhaps we can be too careful with our children.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border