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allergen free gardening

10 tips on how to run a large London garden on two hours a week….

05/04/2015 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

Last month I was asked, as a result of my review of Tom Ogren's latest book on allergen free gardening, to write a piece for a gardening website. I was deeply flattered! So, since I know that half of you who read my blog only do so for the garden, I thought I would share my tips …

Category: GardensTag: allergen free gardening, automatic watering systems, beer pots for slugs and snails, herbaceous patch, Ice follies, maintaining a beautiful lawn, Robinia pseudoacacia Frisia, slugs love fosters lager, Tom Ogren, trailing begonias

On the re-sexing of trees and other matters respiratory

21/09/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

I spent much of last weekend discussing the re-sexing of trees. Not your everyday Sunday papers conversation - but fascinating none the less. How come? Well, I had staying as house guests Tom Ogren, world authority on allergen-free gardening, and Nigel Clarke, garden-centre …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, Michelle's gardenTag: allergen free gardening, allergen-free Guernsey, civic planning of green spaces, FoodsMatter gardening pages, grafting female trees onto male trees, Green legacy Guernsey, inhaled allergies, male trees are clean trees, Nigel Clarke, OPALS allergy rating, OPALS plant scale, pollen allergies, Queux Patio plants, re-sexing trees, SAFE Gardening, Society for Allergy Friendly Environmental Gardening, Tom Ogren

Alas, still no allergen-free gardens…

21/05/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  19 Comments

I am, yet again, totally baffled........ There are around 12 million hay fever sufferers in the UK, approximately 20% of the population. And there are around 25 million amateur gardeners, approximately 40% of the  population – and that is not counting those who garden for a …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, GardensTag: 'Safe sex in the garden', allergen free gardening, allergen-free oil seed rape, Chelsea Flower Show, FoodsMatter gardening, hay fever, hay fever sufferers at Chelsea Flower Show, inhaled allergies, Low Allergen Gardening, plane trees at Royal Hospital Gardens, pollen heavy trees, RHS, Rothamsted Research, Royal Horticultural society, Royal Hospital Gardens, Show gardens at Chelsea Flower Show, snivelling noses with hay fever, streaming eyes with hay fever, Tom Ogren, Why no allergen free gardens at Chelsea Flower Show

Allergen-free gardening – we wish…

31/03/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  9 Comments

Spurred on by our recent burst of unseasonally summer weather – and an email from from Laura Antebi who is coming to stay while she exhibits her wonderful horses, my mind has turned once more the Chelsea Flower Show. Every year I set off on press day with my good friend Anne …

Category: Allergies, GardensTag: 'Allergy-free gardening', 'Safe sex in the garden', allergen free gardening, allergic asthma, Allergies, antihistamines, Chelsea Flower Show, contact allergy, contact dermatitis, flower shows, garden design, garden designers, grasses, Hayfever/inhaled allergies, Laura Antebi, Low Allergen Gardening, RHS, Royal Horticultural society, Tom Ogren, wild flower meadows, wire horses

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