Visitors are encouraged to touch, smell and even nibble a berry or two as they stroll through Alnwick Castle's 26 acres of shrubs, trees and flowers -- until they reach the Poison Garden. Here ...

As described on the Alnwick Garden website: The Alnwick Garden plays host to the small but deadly Poison Garden—filled exclusively with around 100 toxic, intoxicating, and narcotic plants.

Alnwick Garden The Poison Garden is the brainchild of Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, whose husband encouraged her to renovate the gardens when they moved into the castle in 1996.

Bridget tells us that no one has actually died from visiting Alnwick Castle’s Poison Garden, but people have fainted, possibly because they ignored the no-touch, no-sniff rule.

The saddest thing about it being winter is that the Alnwick Garden’s Poison Garden is closed until spring. The good news is that we have time to put it on our vacation list. Top image: Poison ...

The elaborate Alnwick Garden in northeast England includes a "Poison Garden" that showcases plants with killer properties. Visitors are invited to look but not touch or even smell.

Welcome to the Alnwick Poison Garden, where everything wants to kill you MANY tourists have fallen victim to this potentially fatal attraction in the northern English countryside, where everything ...

The elaborate Alnwick Garden in northeast England includes a "Poison Garden" that showcases plants with killer properties. Visitors are invited to look but not touch or even smell.