Alnwick Poison Garden: The Deadliest Plants in the World

[@davidberrell4725]

Alnwick is pronounced Annik.

[@philh.1525]

plus it was the location used for the first season of Blackadder, far more important than some kid wizzard!

[@howardtayloresq.]

Thanks for that I was going to say that too. Plus Markov was not the only person to be attacked by a ricin umbrella a french Bulgarian dissident was attacked first. He was extremely lucky to survive!

[@jamescook7796]

I came here to say that

[@markstott6689]

Simon's pronunciation just made me cringe. I guess that being a southerner who lives in foreign parts and probably thinks that northern England is a wasteland, we shouldn't be too surprised. 😂❤❤❤😂

[@Merriwen]

Yeah, made my teeth itch a tad. Alnwick is not far from where I live... we have many places with odd pronunciations here. Not as weird as when I lived in Nova Scotia though!

[@bryanmccarthy6493]

And we all respect the Miami Vice themed fashion choices.

[@fatboy41bty]

I remember visiting the poison garden at Blarney Castle. IIRC, the only plant that was caged to stop people touching it was the Marijuana.

[@patpierce4854]

I was about to mention that same thing…. Still, here in the USA north of Atlanta, the amount of shade I have in my front yard plus the soil and weather conditions, pretty much means nearly everything that will survive here - is poisonous!!

[@exsandgrounder]

I've been to this and it's worth a look around. Not having seen the video in full yet, the guide pointed to the tobacco plant as being one of the most deadly (primarily thanks to the way it's consumed).

[@aneasteregg8171]

I remember when Tom Scott visited this place

[@feiryfella]

They keep that Aussie NukeNettle under glass with a guard present at all times lol.

[@imanidiot42]

sorry Simon, i don't want to be this guy, but since I went to high school there: it's "An-ick" not "Aln-wick", old english town names being what they are haha

[@TheDarkDogmaticDragonArisen]

Alnwick castle was also used for Harry Potter (I think only the first two?) and, more importantly, the first Blackadder

[@AdelynSchmidt]

Definitely on my bucket list to visit.

[@EAcapuccino]

And i thoughts getting stung by nettles was bad enough! 😅 I will note this presentation whenever I walk through thick vegetation!

[@djdrack4681]

- Aconitum = Ack-own-eye- tum. Yeah you wear rubber gloves when handling this: you can get nausea, local numbness just touching any part of the plant. - Solanaceae family (Nightshades): 4-5 nightshade berries = LD50 for avg adult male. Atropine, and other Tropane alkaloids are in various other species in the family. (IE Jimweed, mandrake, etc).

[@richardreed-eaves2148]

One of my wife's favourite places, alarmingly 😂

[@johnmcgaw2753]

Odd. I remember visiting a 'poison garden' when walking across England on the Hadrian's Wall path but it clearly can't be Alnwick since that is rather farther north. I get lost but even I don't get THAT lost. Doesn't anyone know what the other garden might have been? This would have been circa 2010.

[@feiryfella]

My garden is full of toxins :) Aconite in your garden was punishable by death in Roman times. I have quite a bit, its very pretty.

[@Timmycoo]

It's funny because the first time I heard of Aconite was from the pilot episode of the show "Forever" where the main character is immortal and he calls death by Aconite a terrible way to go, as he keeps a record of his deaths and ranks them. I was interested in the plant/toxin so looked it up and apparently it's theorized that notable figures in history have been murdered/committed suicide via it's poison.

[@duncancurtis5108]

Kids books ages ago said steer clear of Foxgloves. Don't even touch the flowers.

[@Durp-E-Derp]

Simon doing some gardening of his own? or is it the Blazement shrooms

[@hbeachley]

I have a poison plant garden too! (Not nearly this poisonous.) Now that I know about this one, I really want to go visit it!

[@nixpuk75]

Paclitaxel is used as a treatment for a number of cancers, not only breast cancers

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

This place is on my bucket list and has been for years. Hopefully I will get there once my child is older. I can't imagine taking a small child in this garden it is hard enough keeping them alive under normal circumstances especially ones like my daughter who have no fear and haven't developed common sense yet.

[@melasnexperience]

Now I'm curious what difference, if any, there is between the rhododendrons in the poison garden and in the ones that are sold at pretty much every garden center...

[@patpierce4854]

Truth be told- not much difference at all! It’s really surprising how many landscape plants are very toxic!!

[@mr.iforgot3062]

Simon! Hey Simon!

[@ImyaSmol]

Woah got here fast

[@beagleissleeping5359]

A favorite Simon moment was from another channel, talking about a poisonous plant. He stopped part way through reading the script, laughing, "What kind of educated person would be like yeah I'll try some random fruit I found on the beach, why not?"

[@ShinHakumen]

I wonder what went through her husband's mind when he found out that his wife was making a garden filled with highly poisonous and potentially deadly plants 😅

[@sbsstorytelling]

I've heard of this garden, fascinating stuff. My favorite is the gimpy-gimpy strictly for its name!

[@archstanton6102]

Bring out the Gimpy-Gimpy.

[@sbsstorytelling]

@archstanton6102 If that plant doesn't have a red bulb somewhere, well, I'll just say nature missed a golden opportunity.

[@galloe8933]

Way, way back when, say the mid to early 90s, and I'm a kid, 6 or 7, and my dad is a dairy farmer, so I live on a dairy farm, and dairy farmers up in New York grow corn, so attached to the parlor, or kind of behind it by the silos of feed, but just beyond that was CORN! Lots of the stuff, used to eat it raw, probably ate crop dust, anyway... The corn has huge spiders, Saint Andrew's spiders if you want to get a good look, and the boys of the farm's owner used to hang out with me, and we would go out in the corn fields, and they would put those big spiders in jars of chloroform? They called it that, but I was at most 6, so what would I know? They had lots of those spiders in jars, I don't know why they started doing it, but they did. Maybe collecting bugs and spiders and stuff like that is just rich kid stuff? Or, maybe it was due to lack of Pokemans for them to catch all of? I don't know why I remember that, it just stuck with me for decades. I'm sure those two are fine now, and grown up, but kids are weird.

[@brd234]

lovely place just up the road from me

[@archstanton6102]

Where? I am.in DC now but family is in Ponteland and I was born in Wallsend.

[@brd234]

@archstanton6102 live in Newcastle Alnwick is about a 45 minute drive

[@NSAsterus949]

Today I learned that it's Aco-ni-tea, not Ack-o-nite, which has shattered a belief I've held since reading the first Harry Potter book

[@stephanefarnes6398]

Colyton! Most rebellious town in Devon (England), historically 😅

[@TillerMicroSkiffs]

Do one on the gardens in Tuscany that inspired her!!!

[@Bubbaist]

Someone has to say it: Do they have a gift shop?

[@archstanton6102]

The castle does, unsure about the garden.

[@bigtguitars7312]

I’ve been there didn’t have time for the gardens tho. It’s nice that Mrs Whistler dressed Simon in his sailor suit today

[@popoha4380]

How dangerous is the Garden itself? Actually a net positive to human life. Amazing.

[@midnite_rambler]

My mother grew many of these plants when I was a young child. We used to play with the castor oil beans.

[@Kevan808]

What's up with the Where's Waldo shirt?

[@kamicokrolock]

My parents always grew rhubarb in our yard and made pies from it. They were very careful to make sure all their kids knew that the leaves were poisonous. I still meet adults who aren't aware of this.

[@ZOB4]

Interesting to have “B” instead of “C” for Cannabis

[@ThirtytwoJ]

sounds kinda cool. that "come pet the lions" kinda energy.

[@curiouscorvid-1321]

What they called “patients” 😂😂 2:35

[@jirvine00]

Took my husband there and as we left I did point out to him that I grew at least 5 of those plants: only a couple are really restricted and lots of garden and wild plants are toxic if processed the right way

[@Observer675]

I have a new place to visit

[@markfinlay422]

This is why i only eat animal products.

[@ronsimpsonll9739]

Damn Simon. Russian seaman??? A defunct forest? New one...

[@TekSlug]

I’d wager many of those feinting did so from psychological factors. You get a similar thing with police that handle “suspected” fentanyl because they hear these dumb things like “if you breathe too hard near it you’ll die”

[@charlottehardy822]

Beautiful place.

[@ShannonCasul]

Knew they'd have our scary little Aussie plant if they wanted to make things really deadly.

[@patrickbo2045]

And I've been commenting for years how we have nothing but toxic stuff in our gardens 😲

[@joelb8653]

The manchineel (sp?) Native to Florida would be right at home there.

[@xessenceofinsanityx]

I physically cringed the second you said Gympie Gympie. No thanks!

[@georgeofakind1710]

A video about a place i've been to!!!

[@HanaThyregod]

23min fresh!

[@patrickeisert6873]

First Melbourne now this

[@duncancurtis5108]

Brings the movie about those deadly creepers at a Mexican temple.

[@kalakalatu]

I actually grow or have grown, most of these plants in my garden, and the neighbor behind me has a huge golden chain tree. As per usual the claims of incredible toxicity are exaggerated for the benefit of stupid people. The ricin plant, for example, though the lethal dose in adults is considered to be four to eight seeds, reports of actual poisoning are relatively rare.

[@fuzziebear8825]

At the end of the season they "burn" the plants, maybe whilst testing for medicinal properties 😉

[@garyb9167]

Don't like nature at the best of times, this dargden will notbe on my bucket list of places to visit

[@Matthew-oi5jq]

Fun fact: the first 3 cannabis plants they had were stolen!

[@michaelanderson644]

Annik please pronounce our place names properly!!!

[@HappyNarrative]

Keep the modern witches away lol. And the freemasons. 🙅🏼‍♀️