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'Allergy-free gardening'

With the pollen season coming up – the dangers of pollen

10/03/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Tom Ogren, as many of you will know, has been campaigning on the dangers of pollen for many years – see this short video we recorded last year about how pollen combines with pollution with a lethal outcome. For everyone's benefit, he has just done a roundup of recent research …

Category: Allergies, Environmental IssuesTag: 'Allergy-free gardening', AAAAI/WAO meeting, lethal fallout form pollen and pollution, pollen and pollution, pollen exposure in in fancy and allergy, Scented personal care & consumer products now create more smog & air pollution than cars., Tom Ogren

How to create a low allergen garden

27/10/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Readers of this blog and our websites will know all about Tom Ogren, the originator of the concept of low allergen gardening, the inventor of the OPALS allergy scale and the author of The Allergy Fighting Garden,  Safe Sex in the Garden and a number of other books linking the …

Category: Allergies, Conventional Medicine, Environmental Issues, Michelle's gardenTag: 'Allergy-free gardening', 'Safe sex in the garden', air borne pollution made worse by pollen, Excess of male trees in urban environments, making your garden more allergy friendly, The Allergy Fighting Garden, Tom Ogren, Tom Ogren's OPALS plant scale

Ugly plants have higher pollen counts!

15/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  3 Comments

The uglier the plant or flower, the more allergy-inducing its pollens tends to be! What a lovely neat theory being propounded by Dr Robert Valet, assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University – and reported in Science Daily. Although it seems rather …

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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 …

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