Poisonous Plants: Beauty, Danger and Safe Gardening

Why Plants Produce Poisons: evolution, defence, pollinators and chemical ecology. Britain's Most Poisonous Garden Plants: foxglove, monkshood, yew, laburnum, deadly nightshade, giant hogweed and hemlock, with an identification exercise. Poison in History: medicine, witchcraft, crime, warfare and folklore. Safe Gardening: children, pets, protective equipment, disposal, first aid and common myths. T