would you get rid of a laburnum tree?

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we have a garden on two levels. The lower half is laid to lawn and there's a laburnum tree.

Looking at the garden, the lower lawn is where we would put play equipment once our daughter is older, ie, near the laburnum

I've heard that the seeds from this tree are poisonous but I don't know how poisonous and are they poisonous to humans?

My concern is that I won't be able to leave our daughter to play in the garden (for instance, if I need to pop back into the house) and that I will have to constantly watch her.

My husband doesn't want to get rid of the tree but I think we should (it's not him who has to stay home and constantly watch her when she's toddling!!) It really is a lovely tree, the nicest one we have, but my daughter is lovlier! Any advice??

I have just written my first childrens book "Jaime Lea and the Bumblebee" which I am going to self publish next month. The story evolved from me seeing the beautiful old laburnum tree in our back garden, in full flower being visited by endless bees. My concern is, should I highlight the fact that laburnum trees can be dangerous to children and if so to what extent. I would hate for someone to buy a laburnum tree, because of my story, and then blame me if their child was poisoned. I don't know of any other children's books that come with a warning note. Any comments would be much appreciated.

I came across this interesting article about the laburnum tree.

In one section it states that:

"All parts of the Laburnum tree are deadly poisonous including the flowers, leaves, roots, bark and of course the seeds which are sometimes eaten by young children."

I would definitely remove this if I had young children, especially toddlers. U know how they like to put stuff in their mouth.

I wouldn't get rid of the tree - you have to teach children what is growing in a garden and what they can and cannot eat, rather than scaring them about everything. Most people do not know that sweet peas are also very poisonous, but still grow them. Perhaps a good lesson is also to grow plants which have flowers leaves that are edible - pansies, rose petals and so on.

I love laburnums, mainly because I have wonderful memories of the huge one that was in my grandparents garden. It provided shade to the sandpit that we played in regularly. Including activities such as finding the pods and shelling the seeds to decorate our sand castles. We were told very early one that they were poisonous and that we mustn't eat them, and we always had to wash our hands after playing with them. Never did us any harm, and we were really quite young when using the sand pit.

I would get it chopped and gone as kids we was told do not eat but we did try a tiny bit.we had to go hospital for a tummy pump.so for the sake of her friends chop it and plant an apple tree or pear or liliac