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'Safe sex in the garden'

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 …

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Low allergen garden wins gold at Chelsea Flower Show

25/05/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  6 Comments

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 …

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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 …

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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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