The Duchess of Northumberland has a strange hobby. In the gardens surrounding her family’s ancestral home at Alnwick Castle in northeast England, she grows poison. After an inspirational trip to the ...

“Don’t touch,” says Bridget the guide, as we prepare to enter the locked gates of the Poison Garden. “Don’t smell.” Don’t worry: I had seen the skull and crossbones on the black wrought-iron gate, ...

From the front door of the glass-walled gift shop at the Alnwick Garden in the far northeast of England, the scene looks innocent enough. A sapphire green English lawn slopes gently downward, toward ...

Several articles and informational memes label a portion of the Alnwick Garden in Northumbria, U.K., as "the most deadly garden in the world." Indeed, this is a real place fittingly named the "Poison ...

The saddest thing about it being winter is that the Alnwick Garden’s Poison Garden is closed until spring. The good news is that we have time to put it on our vacation list. Top image: Poison Garden ...

From the front door of the glass-walled gift shop at the in the far northeast of England, the scene looks innocent enough. A sapphire green English lawn slopes gently downward, toward traditional, ...

Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, started the Poison Garden at her family's estate, Alnwick Castle, in northeast England. Apothecary gardens were a traditional part of English villages and ...