The Darker Side of Plants - Permission to Poison – The Alnwick Garden
This series with @thegardenstrust explores the Darker Side of Plants – the marvels, mysteries, and murderous nature of the plant world - from fact to fantasy and fiction. @alnwickgarden was inspired by Jane Northumberland with @wirtz_international as designers in the 1990s, it showcases traditional and cutting edge designs. Green leaves serve many potent functions, some sound perilous, but who would have thought of lettuces and Traveller’s Joy as harbingers of dangerous intoxication. At the base of the Great Cascade, fenced, walled and gated, lies The Poison Garden where Caroline Holmes who devised the plantings, wrote the guide notes and gardeners’ safety notes for The Poison Garden within The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, was commissioned to devise a fatal attraction of plants. After briefly setting the scene, she will focus on the living poisons behind the ornate inner gates.
Time: 10:00 BST
