Allergy-free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy LandscapingWith allergy problems reaching alarming, epidemic levels, horticulturist Tom Ogren sets out to investigate the role that urban landscaping plays in this urgent health crisis. What he discovered was startling: The vastly disproportionate cultivation of all-male plant varieties produces large amounts of intensely irritating airborne pollen. This extensively researched, comprehensive, plant-by-plant reference alerts gardeners and helps them make landscaping choices that can drastically reduce their exposure to harmful allergens. Complete with alphabetical entries of basic planting information, growing zones, and allergy ratings. "From the Trade Paperback edition." |
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Allergy on the Increase 27 | 2 |
Cultural Methods of Limiting Garden Allergy | 16 |
Plant Listings | 24 |
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Allergy-free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping Thomas Leo Ogren No preview available - 2000 |
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Acer airborne pollen allergenic ALLERGY INDEX SCALE allergy potential allergy-free garden allergy-free landscape areas of zones berries bloom BUSH CACTUS California cause allergy cause skin rash CEDAR CHINESE clusters color Colpothrinax wrightii common corms Cryptomeria cultivars CYPRESS DAISY deciduous deciduous shrubs deciduous trees dioecious drought-tolerant Easy to grow easy-to-grow edible Eucalyptus Eucommia evergreen shrubs evergreen tree FAN PALM fast-growing feet female tree FERN Florida flowers fragrant fruit full sun GRASS ground cover grows best Hardy perennial hardy to zone herbs houseplant japonica JUNIPER large group lawn leaves lergy LILY low-growing male tree males 9 MAPLE moist monoecious occasionally orange ORCHIDS partial shade perennial Philodendron pink poisonous if eaten pollen popular produce purple seed Senecio separate-sexed shrubs or small small trees sold sexed subtropical SWEET tall thrive Thujopsis dolabrata Tilia tree for zones trees native tropical Viburnum VINE weeds white flowers WILLOW Worst yellow flowers Zelkova zones 9 Zoysia