Hellebore

I have quite a number of hellebore in my garden and someone has told me that they are highly poisonous! Is this true?, if so, with three young kiddies I'd better get rid of them!!

Are they as bad as I'm led to believe?

thanks,
Steve

 

Many plants and trees in our gardens are poisonous Steve and a few are worse than others. If you're children, like mine were, are brought up to respect the plants that are growing there shouldn't be a problem.

I think there is a list of poisonous plants on GC somewhere, perhaps somebody else can point it out for you. I'll have a look round meanwhile and see if I can find it.

 

I think it's more that they can cause skin irritation if you handle them.

 

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/poisonous-plants-a-summary.767/

 

I also have young kids, and have tought them to leave my plants alone. Not only from an eating point of view, but I want them to know that they mustn't damage my garden.
What worries me, is if they get a friend over to play, friend might be tempted to break off leaves/branches/berries etc and might accidentally eat that.

For this reason, I don't have the obivously poisonous plants (like Euphorbias etc) in my garden.