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Health officials said symptoms consistent with aconite poisoning are:

We sow a first flat of seeds; we gently rake debris from a bed to make way for a winter aconite or snowdrop to poke through and cheer us.

Outside in early spring, it’s time for snowdrops, crocuses and aconites, which peep out through the frost.

In mild winters, now no longer uncommon, aconites, snowdrops and early daffodils can appear two to four weeks earlier than in previous years.

Even sooner, in late winter, winter aconites will be spreading their small, yellow blossoms in the slightly raised bed surrounding my terrace.