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Tom Ogren

Hedges dramatically cut roadside pollution

07/12/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

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 …

Category: Allergies, Environmental Issues, Gardens, Michelle's gardenTag: air pollution at roadsides, Atmospheric Environment, environmental pollution, hedges reduce air pollution at roadsides, Nigel Clarke, Nigel Clarke at Green Legacy Guernsey, Professor Prashant Kuar at the University fo Surrey, Professor Prashant Kumar, Tom Ogren, Tom Ogren's OPALS plant scale

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 …

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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

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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Using plants to teach about allergy

19/01/2016 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

I have talked before about how the amazing Nigel Clarke is aiming to turn beautiful Guernsey into a low allergen island, basing his work on Tom Ogren's OPALS Allergy plant scale. (For those of you who have not heard of Tom, he is the creator of the  OPALS scale, a …

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