Lou12, you must live near me then? My Mother-in-law gave me a load some years back telling me they were delphiniums, (she probably was trying to kill me!)
Thanks Verdun, had seeds sent by Beau's Mum and have them coming up in pots and in the ground
Cleared a space for a white aconitum though so hope I get one Taking seeds of napellus too this year as my plant seems to be getting smaller.
If it helps Lou, I handle a climbing aconitum I have a couple of times a week as it keeps falling off the trellis - I think you must have to have a particular sensitivity or ingest it as others have said, to come to harm...I hope so anyway - been ok so far
I have a cape primrose in my kitchen, have been happily dead heading, and removing brown leaves (looked up on the net to see why leaves were going brown) says its the POISON primrose!I I usually have delicate skin reacting to such things.Told my Grandkids not to touch a snail the other day (because of lungworm) my Daughter gave me a VERY wry look and said didnt I remember HER eating them!! She was about a year old. OH has instructed me to copiously water his Rhodos (in pots) today, after my lie-in!
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Lou12, you must live near me then? My Mother-in-law gave me a load some years back telling me they were delphiniums, (she probably was trying to kill me!)
Tomato and potato leaves are poisonous, I am seriously alergic to ant bites.
I once saw a monkshood kill a man at 20 paces...cold blooded psychopaths these plants are.
Thanks Verdun, had seeds sent by Beau's Mum and have them coming up in pots and in the ground
Cleared a space for a white aconitum though so hope I get one
Taking seeds of napellus too this year as my plant seems to be getting smaller.
If it helps Lou, I handle a climbing aconitum I have a couple of times a week as it keeps falling off the trellis - I think you must have to have a particular sensitivity or ingest it as others have said, to come to harm...I hope so anyway - been ok so far
Ah I see you're wearing googles Verdun, no doubt to prevent blindness from the sap of giant hogweed?
googles??
I have a cape primrose in my kitchen, have been happily dead heading, and removing brown leaves (looked up on the net to see why leaves were going brown) says its the POISON primrose!I I usually have delicate skin reacting to such things.Told my Grandkids not to touch a snail the other day (because of lungworm) my Daughter gave me a VERY wry look and said didnt I remember HER eating them!! She was about a year old. OH has instructed me to copiously water his Rhodos (in pots) today, after my lie-in!
I live in Seaford Nanny.