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 …
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With the pollen season coming up – the dangers of pollen
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 …
How to create a low allergen garden
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 …
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 …
Using plants to teach about allergy
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 …