Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Beware the deadly nightshade!  I found this image in an aging informational book on plants and animals and it brought back memories of a younger me diligently yanking this plant from my gardens to protect my children from the toxic weed.  My lovely and wise English neighbor informed me that a single green berry from the plant would kill an adult male, and I took her at her word, thus much energy was wrought into ridding the world of nightshade.  I am now in another yard where no neighbors are close enough to see the plant, my children still at home are old enough to moniter what goes into their mouths, and I kind of like the idea of a man-killing plant lurking in the garden.