Apothecary restock coming up this weekend on Sat, Nov 22 at 3pm EST. Save the date if you need to stock up on my pain relief ointments. See the newsletter for full details: mailchi.mp/thepoisongar...

Just had a good laugh over this jar of zucchini relish my mom gave me. Used to have my mandragora perfume in it (don't worry, glass is non porous). In this family we recycle.

Oil painting of deadly wolfsbane flowers (aconitum napellus) by Dutch artist Jan Bogaerts (1878-1962).

Last night a mystical frozen fog covered the whole village and when I awoke in the morning everything looked like Jack Frost himself touched it. It's like when sleeping beauty touched the cursed spindle and the whole castle became covered in brambles. Everything is spined and thorned.

Sampson Mordan perfume bottle, 1884.

The apothecary of the Hôtel-Dieu in Baugé founded in 1650 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. It is one of the oldest and best preserved apothecaries in France.

Flower essences are low dose preparations used in alternative medicine such as flower essence therapy to help with emotional and spiritual issues. To learn more about their historical origins, preparation, uses, and more, read our flower essence faqs: thepoisongarden.com/about/flower...

*goes outside* *snow-hail blows horizontally* *goes back inside*

Flower essence flash sale - save 20% off all single flower essences and trio sets this weekend. thepoisongarden.com/product-cate...

An illustration of poisonous Black hellebore (helleborus niger) from "Medical Botany" by John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill, 1836.

Botanical illustrations of deadly wolfsbane species by Irish sisters Katherine and Frederica Plunket. They are part of a larger series of wildflower illustrations presented to the Royal College of Science in 1903.

First snowfall of the year this morning! All the roofs in my little village are white with smoking chimneys 🖤

Me with new plants or seeds.

Poisonous poppies watercolour illustration by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, 1660.

Pssst, hey Canadians! Poison Garden Seeds are 50% off this week and I have belladonna, yellow belladonna, datura, black henbane, white henbane, foxglove, mugwort, wormwood, valerian, poppies, wild tobacco, and native medicinal herbs like blue vervain and scullcap. Sale ends midnight on Halloween.

Poison Garden Perfumes are being discontinued and remaining stock is on sale this week from Oct 27-31. Last chance to grab your favourite natural perfume oil or try one you've always wanted to. thepoisongarden.com/product-cate...

Behold this 1868 watercolour painting of a potato, my favourite nightshade. Love it.

Mark your calendars: The Poison Garden's All Hallow's week sale starts this Monday. Save 10-50% off your favourite dark botanicals before they're gone! Sale starts this Monday and ends on halloween at midnight eastern time. We ship to Canada, the USA, Mexico, the UK, the EU, and most of Asia.

Today's the last day to sign up for the Intro to Medicinal Mushrooms online class! Registration closes Oct 23rd. The class will be hosted live on Zoom this Sunday at 3pm EDT and a recording will be available afterwards for registrants who couldn't attend live. thepoisongarden.com/product/clas...

How about a spooky poisonous mushroom for halloween season? Jack o' lantern mushrooms are toxic toadstools growing in late summer to fall on dead wood that are bioluminescent due to luciferin, a compound also responsible for fireflies' ability to glow.

This cool piece covers different possible connections between baneful and beneficial fungi in our bodies from gut health to Alzheimer's. "The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Today is Canada’s National Day for Truth & Reconciliation We honour Indigenous peoples: survivors of residential schools & the 60s Scoop, the lives lost to MMIW & the Highway of Tears, and the erasure of Two-Spirit people We acknowledge genocide, racism, grief, and the land Listen. Learn. Act 🧡

Native bees and wasps pollinating my fall-blooming native asters 💚

Starting this October, The Poison Garden will begin hosting two live online classes per month via Zoom. Class topics will be focused on plants and mushrooms, herbalism, gardening, ethnobotany, and botanical folklore. Registration is now open. thepoisongarden.com/product-cate...

Save 20% off all flower essences and flower elixirs this week only! Sale ends on Friday at midnight eastern time. thepoisongarden.com

I put a jasmine plant in my living room and now it always smells like jasmine green tea in there 💚

Gouche paintings of deadly foxgloves (digitalis sp.) by Hans Simon Holtzbecker, circa 1649–1659.

It's seed saving time. Wrapped up my atropa belladonna plants with cheesecloth so I don't lose the berries and all their seeds to the ground or the birds.

Clammy ground cherry (physalis heterophylla) is a poisonous nightshade native to eastern N. America. The whole plant is toxic to ingest with the exception of the ripe fruits. There are 80+ physalis species in the Americas with many used as a food source by indigenous peoples.

An incredibly accurate atropa belladonna gouche painting by German artist Hans Simon Holtzbecker, circa 1649–1659.

One time I went to my rural village's halloween party dressed as a local man in a 3/4 zip sweater, puffer vest, jeans, a ballcap, and patchy facial hair and went and stood with a big group of them who were "too cool" to wear costumes and none of them noticed I was a woman for the whole party.

Went for a walk after dark to harvest some wild mint from a ditch and the moonlight was reflecting off the waterlily pads in the river, the frogs and crickets were singing a symphony, and the stars were hanging like celestial fruit in the cloud-like boughs of the white pines.

Here's the newsletter with the full list of shipping updates for the USA, Canada, Ireland & the UK. There's lots of important info so please read all the way through to have any questions or concerns answered. mailchi.mp/thepoisongar...

Vegetables woodblock print by Japanese artist Utagawa Shigenobu, 1866.

My shipping to the USA will be temporarily paused this weekend while I manually update my table rate shipping now that I know what the new tariff fees are. Duties are paid by the seller before shipment so customers should not get unexpected bills. Thank you for your patience while I do the math.

Illustration of poisonous amanita and false morel mushrooms from the culturally important "One Thousand American Fungi" by Charles McIlvaine and Robert Macadam first published in 1902. I love that the little devil is reading a toxicology book.

I don't want to log on to the internet, I just want to listen to disco snails on repeat while making arts and crafts. (Art by D.D. McInnes, 2022)

In love with this painting of a frog in a copper pot by American artist Aaron Brent Harker from 1977.

I'm currently running a sale for 20% off everything in the apothecary until this Monday at midnight (eastern time). Stock up on favourites or discover new ones! thepoisongarden.com

The other day I found a belladonna berry from the garden sitting on my perfectly made bed. Not sure if it was left by spirits or fey in a horsehead-godfather way or a crow leaving their human friend a shiny trinket way, but i'm going with the crow energy.

Poisonous plant and fungi colorized wood engravings by Scottish artist Jonathan Johnstone, 1855.

I'm thrilled to have @thepoisongarden.bsky.social on Fabulous Folklore Presents! We talk about poisonous plants, how to grow them, why poisonous plants are important to ecosystems, the "natural = safe" false assumption, and plants you might be surprised to learn are poisonous! youtu.be/XVQG5VfNf54

Love it when the sun is orange during the day from all the wildfire smoke, it's not alarming at all /s

It's belladonna berry time in the poison garden. So shiny and black, like little obsidian witch's scrying mirrors framed with pentagrams.

Look at this mutated horseweed! It's supposed to look like the plant next to it but instead it's a tiny world on the end of a stem.

The volunteer blue vervain plant that popped up in my driveway this spring is doing well in it's new spot in the back garden. I'm leaving it alone in the hopes it reseeds itself into a whole blue vervain patch. It is one of my all-time favourite medicinal native plants.

*whispers* "for the pollinators" as I let the horseweed tower above all the other flowers in the garden.

The first fruits of summer apothecary restock is now live! Enjoy a selection of new, seasonal, and restocked artisanally crafted botanical goods from The Poison Garden. thepoisongarden.com

Turns out red and dark tulip flowers are antioxidant rich and really beneficial to the skin. Tulip oil moisturizes, protects, smooths, and repairs skin. There happens to be a lot of red, purple, and black tulips in the apothecary's garden and the result is a new skincare oil launching this Sunday.