Garden Week: Alnwick Poison Garden
4/20/202611 min
The Alnwick Poison Garden in England is a place where stopping and smelling the flowers could actually kill you. The garden is dedicated entirely to plants that are narcotic or deadly.
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First 90 secondsDylan Thuras· Host0:01
In a corner of northeastern England, there is a giant medieval castle, Castle Alnwick. [gentle music] With its stone towers, giant arched gateways, and thin, spindly windows, it looks a lot like Hogwarts. In fact, it is Hogwarts. The first two Harry Potter movies were filmed at this castle. And like many old English castles, Alnwick is surrounded by these lush, ornamental gardens. But one of these gardens is unlike the others.
John Knox· Guest0:34
Gates are painted black with a skull and crossbones and a warning sign, uh, "These plants can kill."
Dylan Thuras· Host0:41
Yeah. These plants, they're all poisonous. And if that's not enough to put visitors on edge...
John Knox· Guest0:49
There's, uh, quite a clang when you shut the gates behind them, so that kinda scares them again.
Dylan Thuras· Host0:54
[gate clangs] I'm Dylan Thuras, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. And today, we're taking you to the Alnwick Poison Garden, a place where stopping and smelling the flowers could actually kill you. That's after this.
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