The Poison Garden Tour
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The poison garden tour. The Poison Garden is home to 100 types of poisonous plants including exotic killers like Brugmansia angels trumpet and dried hogweed. Saturday 11th May 2019. Poison Garden tours every day Myths and legends are uncovered alongside gruesome scientific fact and history.
An enthusiastic group of members family and friends arrived at 200pm for a tour of the gardens and house at Beaumont House. The Poison Garden as infamous as it is is a fascinating exhibit to look at and walkthrough albeit cautiously. All the grandeur of the Alnwick Castle aside this garden garners curiosity and interest like nothing else does.
Tours run every half hour up until 5 pm. The Poison Garden features many plants grown unwittingly in back gardens and which can be found in the British countryside. The tours last around 20-30 minutes.
Entry to The Poison Garden is included with your day ticket. The most metal garden in the world is The Poison Garden of Alnwick where every plant can kill you. But one of the gardens the poison garden is the one that caught my attention.
I got on the last tour of the day but it did mean waiting for a whole guided tour to finish. Of the most dangerous plants included in the garden are hemlock deadly nightshade strychnine and hallucinatory plants such as opium poppies magic mushrooms cannabis and tobacco. The boundaries of the Poison Garden are kept behind black iron gates only open on guided tours.
Kept behind black iron gates this poison garden houses almost 100 varieties of killer plants and visitors are strictly advised not to smell touch or eat the flowers. We also stock a large range of water features indoor and outdoor pots garden accessories statues giftware homeware home decor and kitchenware. Visitors are strictly prohibited from smelling touching or tasting any plants although some people still occasionally faint from inhaling toxic fumes while walking in the garden.