After a career in education - much of it spent working with special needs children -Ann Williams now devotes a large part of her life tending the plants in her garden not far from Pendle in Lancashire. But this talented mother-of-three is also an accomplished artist whose highly imaginative, sometimes quirky, paintings are much in demand. When she lays down her trowel and fork, as likely as not she will then pick up her paintbrushes. But there is a strange irony. Some of the most beautiful plants in her garden (and inside her house) are also poisonous - in some cases, even potentially deadly. Here she explains. Also by Ann Williams: The Revenge of the Good Witch of Pendle Forest