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This handy guidebook is the result of a sixteen-year collaboration between the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital Poisons Unit. Written with both botanical and toxicological authority, the book offers concise details of the 130 most poisonous plants that are likely to be encountered in the home, garden, and countryside, together with a summary of likely symptoms should they inadvertently be touched or eaten. Photographs of the plants are included to aid identification, and a brief guide to safe plants offers suggestions for the creation of a hazard-free garden.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book gives easy ways to identify the plants in your garden that should cause anxiety of poisoning.
It gives a cross reference of ways to identify which bits of the plant are to be avoided and the likely symptoms, severity and treatment required.
It is instructive and informative.
Fortunately there were not many surprises but it reinforces that knowledge is required before we decorate our salads with leaves and blooms from the garden!
It gives a cross reference of ways to identify which bits of the plant are to be avoided and the likely symptoms, severity and treatment required.
It is instructive and informative.
Fortunately there were not many surprises but it reinforces that knowledge is required before we decorate our salads with leaves and blooms from the garden!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My wife is a childminder and this book is great. Trying to find information on poisonous plants on line was not easy and most of it relates to animals but this book is all you need. Clear and concise we can now confidently put new plants in our garden without wondering if they are ok. It is the only reference book you will need relating to this subject.
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As the leader of a school gardening club, I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is worried about kids & poisonous plants (or even adults). (It doesn't cover pets though).
It lists 132 plants which are poisonous (one per page, with photos), how it's bad for you (what part of the body it harms), but puts the risk into perspective, such as "only a few cases reported".
It shows you there's no need to panic and remove all "poisonous" plants from your garden: sure, hellebores are poisonous, but actually who is going to try and eat one? Why would they? And they're no more poisonous than tulips, hyacinths & daffodils.
We all are taught that potato fruits are poisonous, and some schools are banned from growing them (really!) but actually there have been "very few" reported cases of poisoning, and ingestion is likely to give only "mild" poisoning with tummy ache which resolves itself.
Surprisingly, things like celery & parsnips are listed as potentially harmful (some people are sensitive to the sap and/or bristly hairs on certain plants) and of course some people are very sensitive to strawberries and peanuts.
Interestingly, many many more adults are poisoned than children, because they might eat a big batch of foxglove or comfrey leaf thinking its spinach or they make a herbal tea from something unsafe. Kids go for berries, which tend to be bitter and get spat out. As someone said to me recently "my children won't eat ANYTHING green unless it's smothered in ketchup".
There's a useful first aid page near the front of the book, which I've typed out for the First Aiders in our school.
I feel very relieved now, confident and well-armed against the panickers :) Worth every penny, and I think every school & town library should have a copy.
It lists 132 plants which are poisonous (one per page, with photos), how it's bad for you (what part of the body it harms), but puts the risk into perspective, such as "only a few cases reported".
It shows you there's no need to panic and remove all "poisonous" plants from your garden: sure, hellebores are poisonous, but actually who is going to try and eat one? Why would they? And they're no more poisonous than tulips, hyacinths & daffodils.
We all are taught that potato fruits are poisonous, and some schools are banned from growing them (really!) but actually there have been "very few" reported cases of poisoning, and ingestion is likely to give only "mild" poisoning with tummy ache which resolves itself.
Surprisingly, things like celery & parsnips are listed as potentially harmful (some people are sensitive to the sap and/or bristly hairs on certain plants) and of course some people are very sensitive to strawberries and peanuts.
Interestingly, many many more adults are poisoned than children, because they might eat a big batch of foxglove or comfrey leaf thinking its spinach or they make a herbal tea from something unsafe. Kids go for berries, which tend to be bitter and get spat out. As someone said to me recently "my children won't eat ANYTHING green unless it's smothered in ketchup".
There's a useful first aid page near the front of the book, which I've typed out for the First Aiders in our school.
I feel very relieved now, confident and well-armed against the panickers :) Worth every penny, and I think every school & town library should have a copy.
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