Common sense applies in gardening as in all other aspects of life and living with other poeple. Aconitums are a valuable and ornamental addition to my garden and I've always had them. I trained my daughter as a bairn not to put anything from the garden in her mouth unless I'd told her it was OK so she happily learned to raid the blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, redcurrants, herbs and salads in the veggie plot but knew not to touch anything in the ornamental garden.
Her friends were told the same and I never had any problems - apart form finding all the fruit had gone and there was none left for pud!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I am, however, In Katherine's school of thought. I grow the plants I like & people can come & visit my 'poisonous' garden or not as they please. Visiting children and animals are kept away from ALL my plants - they are too precious to be trampled under small feet / paws
The poison garden at Alnwick is very interesting - the rest of the gardens are excellent - good day out!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
my daughter would die if she ate a cashew nut or a peanut. Some folk are more sensitive to some things than others. I'm sure the poor gardener referred to above was in a tiny minority.
A friend of mine has a son who has an aniphylactic reaction to baked beans which landed him in hospital once. It doesn't mean we're all going to suffer the same fate.
As Verdun says " perspective".
Be aware of POTENTIAL dangers, but don't become paranoid.
To-day I happily repotted 9 Ricinus Communis plants which I grew from seeds of plants I grew, from seeds, last year.
This is the source of Ricin which famously killed Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. I've never been tempted to eat the seeds , nor distill it into poison.
Haha, I remember talking through a school planting scheme with the head and deputy head teacher. The result was having to remove alpine strawberry from the plans because, a few years ago, they had ONE pupil who was allergic.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
I admit to removing Aconitum from my garden. My grandchildren are taught not to eat any of the plants in the garden unless they ask me first and I'm usually with them when they are outside. I grow lots of plants that are considered poisonous but for some reason I have been nervous about the Aconitum. The final straw was having a dream that the youngest one ate some of it. It was obviously playing on my mind so I removed it.
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The most dangerous plant in the world is the coconut. They kill many people every year by falling on their heads.
Common sense applies in gardening as in all other aspects of life and living with other poeple. Aconitums are a valuable and ornamental addition to my garden and I've always had them. I trained my daughter as a bairn not to put anything from the garden in her mouth unless I'd told her it was OK so she happily learned to raid the blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, redcurrants, herbs and salads in the veggie plot but knew not to touch anything in the ornamental garden.
Her friends were told the same and I never had any problems - apart form finding all the fruit had gone and there was none left for pud!
Hostafan 1 - a gardener died last year after handling aconitums. They are very toxic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11213530/Gardener-died-after-brushing-past-poisonous-plant-in-millionaires-garden.html
I am, however, In Katherine's school of thought. I grow the plants I like & people can come & visit my 'poisonous' garden or not as they please. Visiting children and animals are kept away from ALL my plants - they are too precious to be trampled under small feet / paws
The poison garden at Alnwick is very interesting - the rest of the gardens are excellent - good day out!
I grow them Verdun...
... and foxgloves and yew and probably a few other things Agatha Christie could make a story from
my daughter would die if she ate a cashew nut or a peanut. Some folk are more sensitive to some things than others. I'm sure the poor gardener referred to above was in a tiny minority.
A friend of mine has a son who has an aniphylactic reaction to baked beans which landed him in hospital once. It doesn't mean we're all going to suffer the same fate.
As Verdun says " perspective".
Be aware of POTENTIAL dangers, but don't become paranoid.
To-day I happily repotted 9 Ricinus Communis plants which I grew from seeds of plants I grew, from seeds, last year.
This is the source of Ricin which famously killed Georgi Markov on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. I've never been tempted to eat the seeds , nor distill it into poison.
did the deputy head remove all scissors from the school too? only plastic cutlery in the dining room?
BTW Wills, I've ended up with 3 wonderful Colocasia. Many thanks.
I admit to removing Aconitum from my garden. My grandchildren are taught not to eat any of the plants in the garden unless they ask me first and I'm usually with them when they are outside. I grow lots of plants that are considered poisonous but for some reason I have been nervous about the Aconitum. The final straw was having a dream that the youngest one ate some of it. It was obviously playing on my mind so I removed it.