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Poisonous Plants to Avoid in a Children's Garden Children in the Garden To a child, a garden can/should be a space to explore, learn, touch & experience. A place of sound, smell, and unbelievable things to see and watch. Did you know that times spend in the childhood garden makes for some of the most vivid adult memories one day! Do what you can to include plants to educate and fascinate - design for wildlife and plan for leisure family time! Here are a few things to talk and think about: Sight Include in your planting scheme large foliage with dramatic color and texture contrasts, Flowers that are brightly colored (that they should sow themselves!) like sunflowers. Rivers made from pebbles (that they can lay themselves!) and wind chimes of colored glass (made by them of course!). Are there butterflies? Ask your little one to sow for Alyssum, butterflies love 'em! And nasturtiums for the larvae. See what happens when you put a white rose in blue food coloring! Sound Go to the center of your garden, sit and close your eyes. What do you hear? Birds? Bees? The wind? Water? Plants have cool instrumental parts that can rattle (seed heads of Love-in-a-mist) or rustle (sweet corn). Touch Leaves, stems, bark, and flowers all feel different - some are hairy like Lamb's ear (protection against the weather) while some are spiky and spiny like cacti (protection against being eaten). Taste There are many delicious plants to peck from, including fruit, herbs, and vegetables. And nothing better than a juicy peach off the tree! BUT note that you should always know you can't just put any plant in your mouth! Beware of berries, plants with white sap, and seeds you don't know! Poisonous Plants Poisonous plants usually taste so vile that nobody would want to keep eating after the smallest nibble. But it is definitely advised to remove all poisonous specimens from the garden and home that has children in it. 1 Abrus precatorius - Rosary Pea 2 Aconitum spp. - Monkshood, Aconite, or Wolfsbane 3 Actaea spp. - Baneberry, Dolls Eyes, White Cohosh, Snakeberry 4 Aesculus spp. - Horse Chestnut, Buckeye 5 Agrostemma githago - Corn Cockle 6 Aleurites fordii - Tung Oil Tree 7 Allium spp. - Commercial Onions, Wild Onions, Swamp Onions, and Chives 8 Amanita spp. - Monkey Agaric, Panther Cap, Death Cap, and Death Angel Mushrooms 9 A. muscaria - Fly Agaric 10 A. pantherina - Panther 11 A. verna - Destroying Angels 12 Amaranthus spp. - Pigweed 13 Amsinckia intermedia - Fiddle neck 14 Apocynum spp. - Dogbane 15 Argemone mexicana - Prickly Poppy or Mexican Poppy 16 Arisaema spp. - Jack in the Pulpit 17 Asclepias spp. - Milkweed 18 Astragalus and Oxytropis spp. - Locoweed 19 Atropa belladonna - Belladonna or Deadly Nightshade 20 Brassica spp, - Rape, Cabbage, Turnips, Broccoli, Mustard 21 Caltha palustris - Marsh Marigold or Cowslip 22 Cannabis sativa - Marijuana 23 Centaurea solstitialis - Yellow Star Thistle 24 Chelidonium majus - Celandine 25 Chenopodium album - Lambs Quarters 26 Cicuta spp. - Water Hemlock or Cowbane 27 Claviceps spp. - Ergot 28 Conium maculatum - Poison Hemlock 29 Coronilla varia - Crown Vetch 30 Convallaria majalis - Lily of the Valley 31 Daphne spp. - Daphne 32 Datura spp. - Jimsonweed, Downy Thornapple, Devils Trumpet, Angels Trumpet 33 Delphinium spp. - Delphiniums and Larkspurs 34 Dicentra spp. - Bleeding Heart, Squirrel Corn, Dutchmans Breeches 35 Digitalis purpurea - Foxglove 36 Equisetum arvense and other spp. - Horsetail 37 Eupatorium rugosum - White Snakeroot 38 Euphorbia spp. - Poinsettia, Spurges, Snow on the Mountain 39 Fagoypyrum esculentum - Buckwheat 40 Festuca arundinacea - Tall Fescue 41 Gelsemium sempervirens - Jessamine 42 Glechoma spp. - Ground Ivy, Creeping Charlie, and Gill over the Ground 43 Halogeton glomeratus - Halogeton 44 Helleborus niger - Christmas Rose 45 Hyoscyanamus niger - Henbane 46 Hypericum perforatum - St. Johns Wort, Klamath Weed 47 Iris spp. - Irises 48 Laburnum anagyroides - Golden Chain or Laburnum 49 Lantana camara - Lantana, Red Sage, Yellow Sage, or West Indian Lantana 50 Lathyrus spp. - Sweet Pea, Tangier Pea, Everlasting Pea, Caley Pea, and Singletary Pea 51 Leucothoe axillaris and Leucothoe davisiae - Drooping Leucothoe and Sierra Laurel 52 Linum usitatissimum - Flax 53 Lobelia spp. - Great Lobelia, Cardinal Flower, and Indian Tobacco 54 Lotus corniculatus - Birdsfoot Trefoil 55 Lupinus spp. - Lupine 56 Medicago sativa - Alfalfa or Lucerne 57 Metilotus alba and Melilotus officinalis - White and Yellow Sweetclover 58 Menispermum canadense - Moonseed 59 Nerium oleander - Oleander 60 Nicotiana spp. - Tobacco and Tree Tobacco 61 Onoclea sensibilis - Sensitive Fern 62 Ornithogalum umbellatum - Star of Bethlehem 63 Papaver spp. - Various Poppies including Opium Poppy 64 Phytolacca americana - Pokeweed 65 Pieris japonica and other spp. - Japanese Pieris, Mountain Fetterbrush 66 Pinus ponderosa - Ponderosa Pine 67 Podophyllum peltatum - Mayapple and Mandrake 68 Prunus spp. - Wild Cherries, Black Cherry, Bitter Cherry, Choke Cherry, Pin Cherry 69 Pteridium aquilinium - Bracken Fern 70 Quercus spp. - Oak Trees 71 Ranunculus spp. - Buttercups or Crowfoot 72 Rheum rhaponticum - Rhubarb 73 Ricinus communis - Castor Bean 74 Robinia pseudoacacia - Black Locust 75 Rumex spp. - Dock 76 Sambucus canadensis - Elderberry 77 Sanquinaria canadensis - Bloodroot 78 Saponaria spp. - Bouncing Bet and Cow Cockle 79 Senecio spp. - Senecio, Groundsels, and Ragworts 80 Solanum spp. - Common Nightshade, Black Nightshade, Horse Nettle, Buffalo Bur, Potato 81 Sorghum spp. - Sorghum or Milo, Sudan Grass, and Johnson Grass 82 Symplocarpus foetidus - Eastern Skunk Cabbage 83 Taxus cuspidata - Yew 84 Tetradymia spp. - Horsebrush 85 Toxicodendron diversiloba - Poison oak 86 Toxicodendron radicans - Poison ivy 87 Toxicodendron vernix - Poison Sumac 88 Trifolium spp. - Alsike Clover, Red Clover, White Clover 89 Triglochin maritima - Arrowgrass 90 Urtica spp. - Stinging Nettle 91 Vicia spp. - Common Vetch, Hairy Vetch, Narrow-leaved Vetch, Purple Vetch, and Broad Beans 92 Veratrum californicum - Corn Lily, False Hellebore 93 Wisteria spp. - Wisteria 94 Xanthium strumarium - Cocklebur 95 Zigadenus spp. - Death Camas 96 Acer rubrum - Red maple, Swamp maple, Soft maple 97 Acer saccharum - Sugar maple, Rock maple, Hard maple 98 Acer saccharinum - Silver maple, Soft maple, White maple Smells Plants make oils that smell delicious to insects so that they can pollinate the flowers. Some plants have their smelly bits on their bark (like myrrh), some on their fruit's skin (like lemons), some as a closed flower bud (like a clove) or basil (a leaf), seeds like chilies, and roots like ginger. See if you can plant lavender which is valuable for nighttimes baths when little gardeners need to calm down! Insects are cool, so plant for wildlife! Insects are awesome with 3 body parts, 3 pairs of legs, and some with wings. They change shape too! There are more insects than any other living group and appear almost everywhere on earth. Crickets make violin music by rubbing their front wings and grasshoppers with their back legs against front wings! The Atlas moth measures 30cm in wingspan! We can study insects' work by simply getting close to a flower and staying still. With so much nectar nearby, you seize to exist to them! Create housing by adding rocks, wood, and a wide variety of plants. Provide water and food by NOT spraying for pests! Insecticide throws the natural balance out so quickly that the 'bad' guys will increase and you'll end up with an ongoing, never-ending war. Be fascinated! Plants do Magic Only a plant can make its own food. Daytime they breathe in our polluted air process it with the help of the sun, rain and its own green stuff, turn it into sugar energy - which is their growing food. This is called photosynthesis. Nighttimes they breathe in oxygen and transpire extra moisture back out again. Plants play a very important role as they are our filters. Imagine sitting in a closed car with your uncle that smokes with only 1 window down a centimeter... That's what the earth would be like without our forest-lungs. Scary thought! Gardening in the World Globally, we all garden differently due to climatic challenges and availability of water, etc. Garden trends also differ from continent to continent, countries, and cities. 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