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    Dazzling but deadly Aconitum

    Oct 20, 2020 3 minutes

    LACED with poison and resembling a hooded head, the indigo flowers of aconitum (monkshood or wolf’s bane) are frighteningly beautiful. But their danger doesn’t deter many gardeners, offset as it is by the fact that they’re easy to grow, rarely need staking and hardly ever succumb to pests and diseases. Useful perennials, they provide colour and drama in the autumn garden, their lavender-blue spires pairing well with plants such as asters and grasses.

    Another common name for monkshood is ‘queen of poisons’, socalled because it

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