The Duchess of Northumberland has a strange hobby. In the gardens surrounding her family’s ancestral home at Alnwick Castle in northeast England, she grows poison. After an inspirational trip to the ...

“Don’t touch,” says Bridget the guide, as we prepare to enter the locked gates of the Poison Garden. “Don’t smell.” Don’t worry: I had seen the skull and crossbones on the black wrought-iron gate, ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. To enter the poison garden of Alnwick you must fetch a guide to unlock the black iron ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Percy in front of the Grand Cascade water garden at Alnwick Castle - Chris Watt Photography A 21st century pleasure garden ...

There’s a giant new attraction at Alnwick Garden and it’s set to make you feel very small. A series of enormous sculptures are now dotted around the landscaped gardens next to Alnwick Castle . They ...

Some people grow herbs. The Duchess of Northumberland? She prefers something a bit stronger. Tucked behind big black gates on the grounds of the old Alnwick Castle in England is The Poison Garden, a ...

The Alnwick Garden’s Young Gardeners have been given the chance to design and create their first commercial garden, which will be at the show home of the new Edward’s Birch development being built by ...

Monty Don’s British Gardens will feature 60 gardens from across the country as the host, horticulturist and broadcaster ...

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Northumberland Estates' plans to build a new garden centre in Alnwick have taken a step forward. Earlier this year the company, along with centre operator Blue Diamond, revealed plans for the site on ...