more winter flowers

in my imaginary winter garden, datura get’s a full winter-flower bed to itself . but if you read the wiki page on datura, it’s a wonder we still plant them at all. the seeds and flowers are highly poisonous. here’s a partial except:

All species of Datura are extremely poisonous and potentially psychoactive, especially their seeds and flowers, which can cause respiratory depression, arrhythmias, fever, delirium, hallucinations, anticholinergic syndrome, psychosis, and even death if taken internally.

yikes. i guess i’ll have to fence it off accordingly, because those seedpods are just too seductive to not have in my winter garden.

datura seed pods in winter