Thursday, July 2, 2009
I had to call Poison Control the other day!
.... and then I wrote about it. Go. Learn from my parenting misadventures. And possibly identify your yard plants BEFORE your kids eat 'em.
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And this is why I don't plant monkshood, even though I love it dearly. Stupid, beautiful, child-killing monkshood.
Also, our yard is full of locust trees. Now I wonder which kind they are.
Just a quick note from a wildcrafter Beck. Babies *might* eat poisonous plants but a young child would be very unlikely to eat something poisonous. Through intelligent design, they do not taste good! They taste acrid, more than bitter (bitter is usually a good thing) and we instinctively want to spit them out.
The same is not true for mushrooms though. Giant puffballs notwithstanding.
I had the same fears and always told my kids just not to eat plants at all unless they were specifically told they were okay. (And I didn't know enough about plants to ever be the one specifically okaying it, by the way...)
beautiful peony
I've been told that I once ate a poinsettia. I thought only cats did that.
Ooo scary! Glad everything turned out to be ok.
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