The World’s Most Dangerous Garden
Most gardens are lovely places that have flowers and other plants that are neatly arranged, and a particular garden in England is no different. Except enclosed within this garden is an area for plants that are completely off-limits, and the plants inside could also kill you.
Alnwick Garden in northern England is a 14-acre area that is a popular tourist attraction, but inside the garden, behind a pair of large black gates that are adorned with a skull and crossbones, lies an extremely deadly attraction–the Alnwick Poison Garden.
The Alnwick Poison Garden is just as the name implies. The fenced-off area contains some of the most deadly plants on the planet. There is even a warning not to touch or even smell the plants because these plants are dangerous.
There are around 100 plants that are considered deadly that grow in the garden. There’s Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, where consumption of two to five berries can probably kill you, and the ingestion of one leaf might put you down. It’s also one of the most poisonous plants in the Eastern Hemisphere.
There’s the famous Conium maculatum, also known as hemlock. This was the one that killed Socrates. And Strychnos nux-vomica, or strychnine, a tree with seeds that can cause muscular convulsions, asphyxia, and death when ingested. To top it off, there’s the…
