An experienced gardener who died of multiple organ failure might have brushed past a toxic plant while working on an Hampshire estate days before his death, an inquest heard.
Nathan Greenway, 33, was taken to hospital after his wife found him ‘drenched in sweat’ and vomiting on the floor of their home in Aldershot, Hampshire last August.
Hours earlier, he had been working near the poisonous plant aconitum – known as Devil’s Helmet’ or Monkshood – while clearing weeds ahead of a party at Mill Court in exclusive Upper Froyle, near Alton, Hampshire.
After starting my garden maintenance and landscaping business in 1984 and running it for 21 years I decided I needed a change of direction (probably a mid life crisis, no seriously! :-0) Together with my family, wife Donna, Son Henry and Daughter Fleur (not forgetting Hector the Black Labrador) I moved to France in search of an old farmhouse to renovate. In the interim period whilst waiting for the contract to go through I started writing a blog. Initially just to keep a diary for family and friends to keep up with our progress if they wished but then it occurred to me that there isn’t a real time watcher of the landscape industry in the UK. I didn’t want to waste my experience and experiences so I decided I could put all of this Juice to good use so I started Landscape Juice.
