Name: アルニックのポイズンガーデン (The Poison Garden of Alnwick)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:36:39.000Z
Duration: 4 min 34 s
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Sometimes I go to a place and I tell stories.

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But occasionally, I go somewhere and find not just stories

In the grounds of Alnwick Castle, in the north of England,

Inside is one of the world's largest wooden treehouses,

beautiful water features and also... this.

The slightly less conventional Alnwick Poison Garden.

All the plants in here have the ability to kill you,

so you're not allowed to touch or smell or stand too close to them.

and you can see that it has very architectural leaves,

that you can, under laboratory environments, take out ricin.

Ricin is the deadliest poison known to man.

Here we have Atropa belladonna, deadly nightshade,

Four of those berries are enough to kill a child.

the ladies used to squeeze the berries to get the juice

and then use the juice to put in their eyes

to dilate their pupils to make them look more attractive to gentlemen.

Because it's toxic, slowly you start to lose your vision.

Ruta graveolens, again, a very common plant

that you can actually buy from garden centres, yet it is phototoxic

which means that if you get the sap onto your hands,

then in bright sunlight your skin will start to blister.

it will stay in that system for up to seven years.

Now, we had a senior gardener who came into the Poison Garden

and happened to see a weed growing out of this plant,

so without putting her gloves on she took the weed out.

Within an hour, she started to form blisters on her hand

and she ended up with third degree burns.

Two years ago, there was a head gardener down in Surrey

who unfortunately was working with this plant

and they put that down to the toxins from the plant.

The issue with laurel is that it will produce cyanide

and in fact, Victorians used to use leaves of these plants.

Cut in two, popped in a jam-jar with the butterflies that they'd captured,

screw on the lid and the butterfly would die naturally

Now, this plant you can buy from garden centres,

a very common pot plant, it's called Brugmansia

It's an hallucinogenic plant so you can use it in all sorts of ways.

In fact, Victorian ladies would grow the Brugmansia on their tea tables

and then invite ladies around for afternoon tea.

What they would then do is in the tea pot,

shake some of the pollen which would go into the tea

and then the ladies would to start to loosen their tongue slightly

We have a licence from the Home Office to grow cannabis.

We use this plant to start to introduce to children

The scent is so strong that often here we get people collapsing,

that's why we've got the bench next to the wall.

Mandragora, or Mandrake as it's commonly known,

a very popular plant now because of the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Historically, people used to think that there was a live little man

underneath the plant, because if you dug the plant up,

the actual tap root would often have two little legs and a little arm

and so people imagined that it was the devil himself.

Often people said they could hear the plant screaming as it was pulled up,

and so a lot of myth and legend grew up around the Mandrake.

The Duchess of Northumberland is the inspiration of the whole of this garden.

When she became Duchess, she had a vision

to create a modern, contemporary garden that would educate visitors.

So the Duchess then realised: children especially don't want to listen

to talks on herb gardens because they switch off.

If you can tell them that the plants are actually poisonous

then you have the imagination of that child.

Thank you very much to all the team at Alnwick Garden, and to Trevor in particular!

If you want to know more about the gardens or the castle,

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アルニックのポイズンガーデン (The Poison Garden of Alnwick)

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