Toxic Plants

I have just been reading an article on garden plants that are toxic to humans and animals.

All I can say is it wonder the police are not coming over to my house yearly to arrest me for growing lethal weapons!!

I am sure that it will not be long before the government makes us all put hazard warning tape, around are foxgloves, hydrangeas and the such like !

 

A large percentage of our garden plants are poisonous and if we were to give them up it probably wouldn't be worth having a garden at all. How do 'Health and Safety' think people survived down the centuries without there bans and warnings, a lot of poisonous plants were used in medicine back then and still are. We can't live without plants and there's no way all that we grow could be policed.

 

Well if the council can grow Ricinus communis (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_oil_plant#Toxicity) in their town centre raised beds then I can grow a few in the back garden...

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