Alien plant

Our grass is now a bog land and everything is looking very bare except for the berries which the birds are flocking too.  Have some tidying still to do in the garden but there is one main task outstanding which we keep trying to put out of our minds.  The removal of a certain plant, the monkshood!  

I wouldn't have dreamed about taking this plant out last year, beautiful strange blue flowers which are perfect for taking photos.  The bumblebees just adore them but I could never quite get that perfect bumblebee/monkshood shot, maybe this year!  I eagerly watched the plant start to grow again, waiting for the buds to appear when I discovered, while flicking through a herb book, that the monkshood is a very poisonous plant.  Deadly if ingested.  Some people have it at the back of a garden out of reach but ours is at the very front of the plant border and having a small child made the risk too much.  So it has been fenced of waiting for it to start dying back and then a sad but relieved goodbye.  

Here is one of the pictures that I have taken but alas still no bumblebee/monkshood shot!

Susan

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