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How Does Your Garden Grow? [1]

Poetry [2]
7.2.19

Enclosed within black iron gates in the Alnwick Garden in northern England is the Poison Garden, a collection of one hundred deadly plants dreamed up by the Duchess of Northumberland as a unique way to entice and educate visitors about the medicinal and toxic quality of plants. This week, browse through Encyclopedia Britannica’s list of world’s deadliest plants [3] and select one to read and think more deeply upon. Write a poem inspired by the unique capabilities of the plant, meditating on both its superficial characteristics and its potential to heal, harm, or do both.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/how_does_your_garden_grow [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.britannica.com/list/7-of-the-worlds-deadliest-plants