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Nearby was a test garden filled with crab apple trees and native plants like the Pulsatilla and the Baptisia.

So I went with a selection of just three plants: a dark purple fountain grass that echoed the dark branches in the painting, to frame the left side of the arrangement; white astilbe to suggest the shimmering effect of the water and sky; and the silvery-tan feathery seed heads of the early blooming pulsatilla.

Another ingredient is pulsatilla, which “is highly toxic, and produces cardiogenic toxins and oxytoxins which slow the heart in humans.”

Neither belladonna nor pulsatilla relieves cold symptoms.

Of magnesia artificialis three hundred and twelve symptoms are noted; six hundred and fifty of the rhus radicans; nine hundred and forty of pulsatilla; five hundred of ignatia amara; four hundred and sixty of arsenic: in short, volumes upon volumes are crowded with these observations, not only recording physical effects, but singular results on our moral faculties; such as serenity or moroseness, gaiety or sadness, a disposition to commit suicide or a fond partiality to life, courage or cowardice, a weak intellect or a vigorous conception.