The University of Surrey – specifically Professor Prashant Kumar – have just completed a study to find out whether roadside planting (hedges and/or trees) can reduce road air pollution. (You can read about it in detail in Atmospheric Environment here.) And, as my good friends Tom …
Nigel Clarke
Low allergen garden wins gold at Chelsea Flower Show
What a coup!! You see those round little yellow tickets saying OPALS? They are there to tell you, on a scale of 1 – 10, how badly that flower and its pollen will affect you if you have hay fever or allergic asthma. And they are all over the gold-winning Birmingham City Council …
On the re-sexing of trees and other matters respiratory
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 …