BeKind said:Why are they sold in nurseries if they are poisonous?
Hmmm....
Would you insist that all nurseries only carry vegetables?
While an edible landscape is a desirable thing, growing flowers for the pollinators helps ensure a better crop from the kitchen garden.
Datura would be one of the plants grown in the pharmacopeia garden, alongside other toxic plants like foxglove...
And then.... There's the highly poisonous plants with no apparent use, like oleander, castor bean, and aconitium.
And even these.... Have some use....
I used to add some castor beans to the melon seeds to prevent rodents....
And.... People living in high concentrations of deer.... Really can't grow much else...
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