The British garden home to the world's deadliest plants - BBC REEL

The Poison Garden at the Alnwick Garden in Northumberland, England is one of the deadliest gardens in the world. It features around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants. Visitors require a safety briefing before entering and gardeners must wear full-body protective clothing.
It may seem alarming, but many of the plants can be found in ordinary gardens, with people completely unaware of their poisonous potential. However, in many cases these deadly plants can also have life-saving qualities too, so truly understanding their potential to both harm and to cure is vitally important.
Video by Chris Griffiths
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[@hunterG60k]

It just goes to show how ridiculous the law is when you've got some of the deadliest plants on Earth, just hanging out in the open, yet *cannabis* is treated like it's made of ebola crossed with small pox. Mental

[@Kenan-Z]

Tell this to the relatives of longtime cannabis users, who developed schizophrenia and ruined the lives of their relatives along with theirs.

[@habeascorpus2534]

Idk if I'd touch the cannabis tbh. That soil is probably toxic as hell when it rains the toxins from other plants would just soak into it. So yes they have it locked up for a reason because if a pothead walked through there you know for a fact there pinching some lol

[@user255]

@@Kenan-Z Then I guess we should also lock cars and beer behind cages. Pretty much anything can be dangerous when abused. When it comes to intoxicants cannabis is among the least dangerous.

[@nateb118]

@@user255 No kidding. Some people react badly to shellfish, peanuts, and strawberries. According to Karen's....I mean Kenan's logic I suppose we should outlaw them too. Thankfully I live in the US where individual states are starting to legalize it, but the Federal Government still hasn't legalized it-- consequently individual state dispensaries have banking issues due to Federal regulation of financial institutions.

[@user255]

@@nateb118 Yeah, it should be legal like in many countries already. However I'm not so sure about the candy like edibles. At least they should be sold only in packages with child proof lids etc. Like all(?) intoxicants they can actually be dangerous to children.

[@NOTHING-AT-ALL.]

England is a significant producer of medical cannabis. In 2021, the UK produced 329 tonnes of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes, which was more than half of the reported world total, It also exported 213 tonnes of cannabis for these purposes. This makes the UK one of the largest suppliers of medical cannabis in the world

[@donaldlyons537]

@@NOTHING-AT-ALL. Nature's Way of saying hi !!! It's sad the War on drugs Suppressed the Medicinal benefits of cannabis. Met a new friend recently.... Said he survived the War.....on drugs. I laughed.... In Ann Arbor shrooms are legally distributed now. Law passed last year or so. Haven't been there yet, but.....

[@donaldlyons537]

@@NOTHING-AT-ALL. How I got to this subject..... not too sure. Oh yeah.... BBC... you tube. Was looking at lightning in Venezuela. Lightning Capital of the Planet !!!!!

[@donaldlyons537]

@@NOTHING-AT-ALL. Love the Simpsons ! And good Neighbor Ned Flanders.... D'oh !!!!!

[@NOTHING-AT-ALL.]

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[@theconstellationofboredom8635]

This was very informative and neatly presented. Thank you.

[@tropanealcaloid]

Is there any kind of internship in that garden or something? Working in a poisonous garden sounds like heaven

[@samuelgarrod8327]

No. Just study the plants.

[@tropanealcaloid]

@@samuelgarrod8327 Already doing that fam

[@amgry5461]

Love how cannabis is treated with the highest level of security despite the rest of the garden 😂

[@z00mnyanavira64]

eye opener indeed

[@user-np8nr5uw3r]

Is there a souvenir shop?

[@oksanaiavorovska7768]

Wonderful World the great surprise in any kind of Sense!!!❤

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

Knowledge is power

[@asmith9140]

at least parents keep their kids away

[@MixedMartialHelp]

It's worth a visit, the gardens and the waterworks are excellent. It's hilarious the poison garden has cannabis in it though.

[@ila2409]

Those beautiful yellow flowers are deadly😱

[@djdoolittle1315]

The power of plants

[@acwhit1593]

Tom Scott introduced us to this first.

[@MrFossil367ab45gfyth]

Enter at your own risk!

[@MsCheesemonster13]

Crikey, that was a harrowing watch 😳

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

Backpacking through Europe

[@charlesrae3793]

Visited here last year; I surprised the guide when I told him that I had tried qat, way back in the 90sm when it was still legal.

[@Nick-cy2tn]

You just know the garden staff grab some weed leaves for the crimbo night out😆

[@davolaa]

Complete hypocrisy from the home office getting them to prove they’ve done nothing with the cannabis

[@skullandbones1832]

❤️

[@dimosthenistheodosiadis1914]

3:06 lol

[@gerrypaolone6786]

What if you mix a bit of all of them? XD do they eliminate each other or eliminate you in like 1 second?xD

[@samuelgarrod8327]

My Mother in law refused to go...

[@lwendooverland1212]

You mean Medical Plants.

[@sariahmarier42]

Really disappointed with the misapplication of education regarding cannabis. Cannabis, being neither addictive nor poisonous, does not belong in this garden.

[@ShaneyElderberry]

Inhaling the smoke does produce a tar and heated, volatile chemical compounds, which can give you lung cancer.

[@LIZZIE-lizzie]

Have the poisons been genetically removed from any of these plants because ,if or mistaken, rhododendron or a similar flowering bush is in bloom all over North East United States. My mom had a huge bush with huge blue bunches of flowers with huge honeybees hiding inside of them. Most very likely, I have the wrong name to that plant but wondering if poisonous agents can be or have been removed? Very interesting! Thank you 🥰

[@Bobs113]

No. They would have to be breed specifically to get rid of the poison. Some of them may have been but I have no idea which ones they are. Oleander is another one that grows in the US. It too is deadly. Our yard had lots when we bought the house and the first thing we did was remove them. People have died from cutting a branch and using it to roast a hotdog. Not worth the risk.

[@FrankTaeger2021]

No, in fact, if you chewed and ate them, you may in fact have died at that point. An incredible amount of plants just growing next to you somewhere in Europe are incredibly poisonous. However, they have adapted just as animals around us adapted so most of them do not even try to nibble them. And those that do end with an early demise in the wild.

[@Trackbreaker]

Hello! Alnwick castle is a building site at the moment! It's not worth visiting at the moment! An entrance fee of 20 Pounds and the missing permission of taking photos in the inside are two more reasons not to visit this place! ;-) Greetings Renate and Olaf #Trackbreaker

[@raymondblood6322]

Matijuana is no poison

[@user-np8nr5uw3r]

It is insidiously so

[@nzs316]

To think that all this was common knowledge over a hundred years ago!

[@mikeharrington5593]

Thanks, but gimme more, more.

[@angeladudley1211]

Rhododendron honey 😮

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 so you have never come across mad honey Remember the Roman soliders were defeated by Persians because the notice the poisonous honey and collected it into pots The Romans greedily ate this delicious honey, some started to vomit or diarrhoea, while the rest suffered with hallucinations If a lot was ingested it would have poisoned them instantly. The Persians took opportunity to attack and defeated the Romans The effects wear off after 24hrs, but like I said if too much is ingested then you don’t wake up There are other incidents in ancient history about this, read about it for yourself 😊

[@lotfibouhedjeur]

What's that story about a girl in a poisonous garden?

[@ShaneyElderberry]

Rappaccini's Daughter (1844) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[@jeansimonlongtin1818]

Cannabis❤❤❤

[@LeafCharles]

Have you had suicidal people going to your garden?

[@shamusatha4700]

This whole time I've been cutting them bushes that can produce cyanide gas and never new 😮😮😮

[@malc.s.5373]

Do they let you take cuttings? 😀

[@user-wu1dv6jk5s]

There is no such thing as "Poisonous Plants"

[@Leesaps]

I see it, great way to educate the wrong ones that can learn how to do harm. Way to go!

[@anonymousforever]

Oh give it a rest🙄 go back to your 'safe space'...

[@KeepCalmandLoveClassics]

The Suicide Garden 🌱

[@paulwainwright6912]

Have they got a gifts shop for the wife

[@WhiteEnglish]

I must tell the wife to visit and give the plants a good trim up and a good sniff 😀

[@janettmusic]

Your wife deserves someone better.

[@rolfkrajewski4975]

Let me guess, you're a boomer

[@angeladudley1211]

Cyanide

[@keegannew4551]

Why do people feel the need to assign a moral values to chemicals?

[@nateb118]

Because people enjoy chemicals and will always want to do them. People also enjoy having power over others. There is power in condemning and controlling something people desire.

[@oleggeraschenko4932]

yikes, I put the 666th like on this video

[@Capohanf1]

ANY CURE THE WU FLU??????

[@tropanealcaloid]

Is there any kind of internship in that garden or something? Working in a poisonous garden sounds like heaven