I think the person who died must have ingested the Agonitum or been sensitive to it, the garden nursery centre where I work grows and sells this plant and none of the nursery staff have died from it yet !!!!!!!!
.^they're usually in a packet with a warning on the label...
...people, often young, buy houses with gardens....there may be Aconitum's growing planted by previous gardeners...like us... unknowingly, anyone in that family could start prodding around with such plants... they are simply too toxic and, in my view... should no longer be offered for sale...
Yes, artjak, I agree and it does seem strange. We had a laburnum tree at my school and on one memorable occasion several of the girls in the year above me were rushed to hospital to have their stomach pumps after eating some. They all survived with no ill effects fortunately.
With regard to tetanus jabs, I was told recently by the nurse at my surgery that if you've had 5 jabs then you are protected for life. She then told me that I had had one back in 2003, one in 1987 and that I must have had 3 as a child so therefore I didn't need any more. I have to say I wasn't entirely convinced...
I love my aconite's, and will certainly not be getting rid of them in the near future thanks all the same. I taught my children to neither touch nor eat anything that was not approved by me, and we are all still here, so is my grandson whose mother is a gardener too. I would like to know more about this poor mans death - I find it hard to believe he died after just brushing past the plant. If so, then he had a severe sensitivity - as I have to melon, which has tried to kill me on several occasions - so far it has not succeeded, and I avoid it like the plague it is for me, but I do not expect the fruit to be banned because of my unusual extreme sensitivity.
By the by, many of the cardiac failures in people found in their gardens are just that, cardiac failures!
I've never grown aconitums because they are so poisonous. I had 4 children and now have 8 grandchildren so never wanted to take the risk. No laburnums either, or yew.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I think the person who died must have ingested the Agonitum or been sensitive to it, the garden nursery centre where I work grows and sells this plant and none of the nursery staff have died from it yet !!!!!!!!
Some people die after eating peanuts but they still sell them. I'm certainly not going to panic at the site of an Aconitum
.^they're usually in a packet with a warning on the label...
...people, often young, buy houses with gardens....there may be Aconitum's growing planted by previous gardeners...like us... unknowingly, anyone in that family could start prodding around with such plants... they are simply too toxic and, in my view... should no longer be offered for sale...
Yes, artjak, I agree and it does seem strange. We had a laburnum tree at my school and on one memorable occasion several of the girls in the year above me were rushed to hospital to have their stomach pumps after eating some. They all survived with no ill effects fortunately.
With regard to tetanus jabs, I was told recently by the nurse at my surgery that if you've had 5 jabs then you are protected for life. She then told me that I had had one back in 2003, one in 1987 and that I must have had 3 as a child so therefore I didn't need any more. I have to say I wasn't entirely convinced...
I love my aconite's, and will certainly not be getting rid of them in the near future thanks all the same. I taught my children to neither touch nor eat anything that was not approved by me, and we are all still here, so is my grandson whose mother is a gardener too. I would like to know more about this poor mans death - I find it hard to believe he died after just brushing past the plant. If so, then he had a severe sensitivity - as I have to melon, which has tried to kill me on several occasions - so far it has not succeeded, and I avoid it like the plague it is for me, but I do not expect the fruit to be banned because of my unusual extreme sensitivity.
By the by, many of the cardiac failures in people found in their gardens are just that, cardiac failures!
Sorry, I'm not for sale
Nut x
In the sticks near Peterborough
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've never grown aconitums because they are so poisonous. I had 4 children and now have 8 grandchildren so never wanted to take the risk. No laburnums either, or yew.
It won't grow here. But at least the stems aren't poisonous.