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Old 30-05-2018, 02:48 PM   #21
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Yes, I think it is too. The stuff in fox gloves is used in heart treatment, I think it slows the heart rate down or something. I remember reading it in the Poison Garden book

Edit: Digitalin is the extract from digitalis (foxglove)

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Old 30-05-2018, 03:29 PM   #22
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Yes, I think it is too. The stuff in fox gloves is used in heart treatment, I think it slows the heart rate down or something. I remember reading it in the Poison Garden book

Edit: Digitalin is the extract from digitalis (foxglove)
I read up on it too and it’s interesting stuff. A lot of toxic plants are used medicinally. I’ll err on the safe side and put on gardening gloves to dig it out. Some say it has to be ingested to have an effect, others state it can react to skin contact.
They’re so pretty and folklore says it helps to keep bad things away or attract the fae.
I’m so tempted to move it elsewhere but with a dog and all the animals I think it’ll have to go. Why couldn’t it have been hollyhock?!
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Old 02-06-2018, 07:36 AM   #23
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If you are ever in Northumberland the Poison Garden within Alnwick Gardens is an interesting visit
. . . or just watch this video and save yourself the entry fee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGo9gYypQc8

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If you are ever in Northumberland the Poison Garden within Alnwick Gardens is an interesting visit
. . . or just watch this video and save yourself the entry fee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGo9gYypQc8
That’s so interesting. I’ve heard of a few of them. Love the cannabis grown in a cage! Probably the least harmful of the lot!
Quite fancy having a few in my garden just to make sure unwanted visitors don’t return...
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I read up on it too and it’s interesting stuff. A lot of toxic plants are used medicinally. I’ll err on the safe side and put on gardening gloves to dig it out. Some say it has to be ingested to have an effect, others state it can react to skin contact.
They’re so pretty and folklore says it helps to keep bad things away or attract the fae.
I’m so tempted to move it elsewhere but with a dog and all the animals I think it’ll have to go. Why couldn’t it have been hollyhock?!
I love foxgloves and my garden is full of them and always has been occasionally I might move one if it is growing in one of the pens but otherwise they stay put. I did have a Horsfield that ate one once but he is still here to tell the tale and obviously has a death wish as was eating a poppy the other day!
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I love foxgloves and my garden is full of them and always has been occasionally I might move one if it is growing in one of the pens but otherwise they stay put. I did have a Horsfield that ate one once but he is still here to tell the tale and obviously has a death wish as was eating a poppy the other day!
Mine has been successfully moved into the area I call the faery dell as it's full of wild flowers, ferns and surprisingly enough, faery statues.
It looks perfect there so hopefully will come up again next year as I think they're biennials.

Your Horsfield clearly has an extreme food fetish. Glad he is still here to tell the tale after the foxglove!
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That’s so interesting. I’ve heard of a few of them. Love the cannabis grown in a cage! Probably the least harmful of the lot!
Quite fancy having a few in my garden just to make sure unwanted visitors don’t return...
What I found quite interesting was a lot of the plants they tell you about in the video and at the actual garden and also in the book were plants that we were told as very young children not to touch and we always knew not to touch them but never really knew why or what would happen if we did. The book is a great read. I can't seem to find it online though

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do you remember the spy , double agent (couldn't be Wiltshire again could it ?) who was injected by a man with an umbrella, believed Russian but other spies available - that was digitalis and it was so quick acting he didn't stand a chance. Not nice but used by spies.
I have hardly any weeds grown this year, swamped out and then frazzled I think. Only ones in my pots are doing well but didn't do many this year so need back up plan next year.
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do you remember the spy , double agent (couldn't be Wiltshire again could it ?) who was injected by a man with an umbrella, believed Russian but other spies available - that was digitalis and it was so quick acting he didn't stand a chance. Not nice but used by spies.
I have hardly any weeds grown this year, swamped out and then frazzled I think. Only ones in my pots are doing well but didn't do many this year so need back up plan next year.
How have your nasturtiums come on? Mine are doing well. Nowhere near flowering yet but looking good.
I've been the opposite to you this year, swamped with weeds and flowers for them to eat. So far, I've been self-sufficient in the garden with no need to go out on a weed walk.
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do you remember the spy , double agent (couldn't be Wiltshire again could it ?) who was injected by a man with an umbrella, believed Russian but other spies available - that was digitalis and it was so quick acting he didn't stand a chance. Not nice but used by spies.
I have hardly any weeds grown this year, swamped out and then frazzled I think. Only ones in my pots are doing well but didn't do many this year so need back up plan next year.
I remember that, it was almost unbelievable like something out a film, it was a Bulgarian I think
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