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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 Garden. As described on the Alnwick Garden website: The Alnwick Garden, on the grounds of the Alnwick Castle, has been around in some form since 1750, when the first Duke of Northumberland, Hugh Percy, planted the grounds' original garden. It was significantly revamped beginning in 1997 by the current Duchess of Northumberland, Jane Percy. According to head gardener Trever Jones, the Duchess came up with the idea for the poison garden, which opened in 2005. It was the brainchild of the Duchess, Jones explained in a video produced by Great Big Story. So rather than having a herb garden, she decided to create more interest and have a poison garden. Explaining the decision on an earlier version of the garden's website, she wrote: Every plant here in the poison garden is poisonous and has the ability to kill you, Jones explained, before listing off several plants as examples: As Jones points out, many of the plants in the garden are quite common and often planted by people who are unaware of their chemical properties. They're very, very common plants, he said. In fact, a lot of them are what we call crossover garden plants. And they're grown in many people's gardens, but people don't know how harmful they actually are. In addition to common plants that are poisonous, the garden also hosts several narcotic or hallucinogenic plants. The Duchess got government permission to grow plants like cannabis, opium poppies, magic mushrooms, and coca, the website Atlas Obscura explained. While we cannot speak to the claim that this is properly categorized as the most dangerous garden in the world, the Poison Garden in Northumbria is a real place, and as such its existence is factual.
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