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, ...

Some people grow herbs. The Duchess of Northumberland? She prefers something a bit stronger. Tucked behind big black gates on the grounds of the old Alnwick Castle in England is The Poison Garden, a ...

The English aristocracy is often embraced for its eccentricities. But when newspapers announced recently that the Duchess of Northumberland was about to use her gardens to grow cannabis and opium and ...

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 ...

I moved to New York last year to help set up New Scientist‘s Manhattan bureau, but with lots of family and friends in the UK, we’re about to return for a visit. They are eager to walk its ramparts, ...

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 ...

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, ...

One corner of the garden of Alnwick Castle in northern England grows a hundred plants behind lock and key. Many of the toxic species there were... From the front door of the glass-walled gift shop at ...