Its spooky season so go make a spooky salad and join the spooky scary skeletons. Watch this interesting video and enjoy the moment.
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00:00 This is Atropa belladonna. Four berries are enough to kill a child.
00:04 Atropa belladonna will kill you.
00:07 Dertura will put you to sleep forever.
00:10 Aconitum will kill you.
00:13 Laurel will produce cyanide and kill you.
00:22 Every plant here in the poison garden is poisonous and has the ability to kill you.
00:29 My name's Trevor Jones and I'm the head gardener of Annick Garden.
00:33 This plant is giant hogweed. It will get up to around about eight foot high.
00:37 It's phototoxic so will burn your skin and give you blisters for up to seven years.
00:43 This garden is set in the wall garden of the Old Castle in Northumberland, UK.
00:48 We would have around about 95 plants and we're adding to the collection all the time.
00:54 This plant is Aconitum or monkshood.
00:56 Wonderful blue flowers but the whole of the plant is poisonous.
01:00 The berries crushed up and fed to you will kill you.
01:03 The leaves themselves will kill you also as will the root and the stem.
01:07 We have to obviously maintain the garden so we have to tend the plants.
01:10 And when we do that we have to be very careful of the way we operate.
01:14 So we have to cover some of our skin when we deal with particularly dangerous plants.
01:20 This plant is laurel. It produces cyanide and we all know what that will do to you.
01:25 So it was the brainchild of the Duchess, Duchess of Northumberland.
01:28 So rather than having a herb garden she decided to create more interest and have a poison garden.
01:33 They're very very common plants. In fact a lot of them are what we call cottage garden plants.
01:38 And they're grown in many people's gardens but people don't know how harmful they actually are.
01:44 This is Atropa belladonna.
01:46 Four berries are enough to kill a child.
01:49 People are intrigued by poisonous plants.
01:51 And often very worried when they come out because many of them will be growing these plants at home.
01:55 They don't realise the powerful impact plants can have on us as humans.
02:00 Is it something that you find fascinating?
02:02 Definitely.
02:03 Why?
02:04 It's a good way to get rid of your life.
02:09 I don't know.
