The Poison Garden

Established in 2005 by the Duchess of Northumberland. The garden contains over 100 deadly and hallucinogenic plants. 

’I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be.’

-The Duchess of Northumberland 

So this garden was established because a woman knew that they way to get kids intrested in learning about plants was to show them how morbid plants could be. My kind of woman.

I’m sure I’ve rebloged this before, but i don’t know if I’ve added the story of how my mom’s garden of my childhood home became known as The Poison Garden of the Moor.

Unseen footage of Purps, as a child, drinking her mum's special home brew.