Here are some hippies eating yew berries. I wouldn't recommend it, not because of any doubt about the berries, but because of the serious trouble you'd be in if you accidentally ate the seed.
It's difficult because on the one hand you want people to be educated, on the other hand, hysteria soon ensues when you talk about these things.
This is the cotton wool generation. I offered my sister some plants and her first question was whether any of them were poisonous (I have a young niece). I'm sure we had poisonous plants in our garden, growing up together, and never came to any harm. We used to play with laburnum pods and make 'perfume' from concoctions of flowers and leaves mixed with stagnant water from the water butts that even the thirstiest African villager would steer clear of. We picked bouquets of foxgloves and presented them to a horrified aunt. We were also driven around with no safety seats and our mum smoking in the front seat, but we're in different times now!
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
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Here are some hippies eating yew berries. I wouldn't recommend it, not because of any doubt about the berries, but because of the serious trouble you'd be in if you accidentally ate the seed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-uHwjB2seI
Well, you do have to eat a humungous amount of Lettuce or Carrot for them to poison you, but they are poisonous.
So is water in massive doses.
So after all that, we agree? Leave the poor Aconitums alone and enjoy the flowers!
I have sympathy Runnybeak. But strimming with bare legs? Is that sensible. It's not just giant hogweed that can cause damage.
Be aware, use common sense and it won't attack you.
In the sticks near Peterborough
It's difficult because on the one hand you want people to be educated, on the other hand, hysteria soon ensues when you talk about these things.
This is the cotton wool generation. I offered my sister some plants and her first question was whether any of them were poisonous (I have a young niece). I'm sure we had poisonous plants in our garden, growing up together, and never came to any harm. We used to play with laburnum pods and make 'perfume' from concoctions of flowers and leaves mixed with stagnant water from the water butts that even the thirstiest African villager would steer clear of. We picked bouquets of foxgloves and presented them to a horrified aunt. We were also driven around with no safety seats and our mum smoking in the front seat, but we're in different times now!