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Hello.
Someone was kind enough to link to my website and my visitor stats showed the link.
I wouldn't, normally, post a 'hello' type thread because I'm wary of being thought to just be wanting to promote myself but, in that other thread, Jeanied asked me to introduce myself.
I was the Poison Garden Warden at the Alnwick Garden until 2008 when I left to set up my own site.
I first started researching poison plants in 2003 and, to me, it's a really fascinating subject. I've spent a large part of my own time since then studying these plants and researching the stories (fact, fiction and folklore) associated with them.
It got so I had so much information which couldn't be fitted into the short tours given at Alnwick that I wanted to find ways of providng more of it to people.
I'm not a botanist or horticulturalist. Ten years ago, my wife's favourite way to describe my gardening knowledge was that I knew pansies and daffodils and every other plant had to be related to one of those two.
My key philosophy is that just because a plant is poisonous it doesn't have to be harmful. It's only when 'we' start (ab)using the plants that the real harm comes. When people ask me what is the most dangerous thing in the garden my answer is always 'the gardener'.
I don't think I'll have much to offer to many of the discussions here but, if I notice a thread about poison plants, I'll try and contribute.
Someone was kind enough to link to my website and my visitor stats showed the link.
I wouldn't, normally, post a 'hello' type thread because I'm wary of being thought to just be wanting to promote myself but, in that other thread, Jeanied asked me to introduce myself.
I was the Poison Garden Warden at the Alnwick Garden until 2008 when I left to set up my own site.
I first started researching poison plants in 2003 and, to me, it's a really fascinating subject. I've spent a large part of my own time since then studying these plants and researching the stories (fact, fiction and folklore) associated with them.
It got so I had so much information which couldn't be fitted into the short tours given at Alnwick that I wanted to find ways of providng more of it to people.
I'm not a botanist or horticulturalist. Ten years ago, my wife's favourite way to describe my gardening knowledge was that I knew pansies and daffodils and every other plant had to be related to one of those two.
My key philosophy is that just because a plant is poisonous it doesn't have to be harmful. It's only when 'we' start (ab)using the plants that the real harm comes. When people ask me what is the most dangerous thing in the garden my answer is always 'the gardener'.
I don't think I'll have much to offer to many of the discussions here but, if I notice a thread about poison plants, I'll try and contribute.
...is there anything else which can be handled in the same way which would counteract that??
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