Asthma Friendly Gardens
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Article by: Thomas Leo Ogren Asthma Friendly Gardens , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home Tom Ogren Recent studies have shown that babies born to mothers who were exposed to high levels of pollen in their last trimester of pregnancy have a much greater chance of developing asthma. One of the main keys with asthma prevention is avoidance. When you have asthma the typical garden , Warm & Toasty Outdoors with Patio Heaters is not a very friendly place , How to Find Cheap Home Improvement Loans at all. There are mold spores to contend with and worst of all is the pollen. Typical gardens , Burning Bushes Do Well In Doylestown Township Pa. have pollen producing male trees , Dealing With Rose Bushes and male shrubs , Enhance Your Garden with Beautiful Edging and other plants , Tips for Clay Soils Near Yardley Boro, PA that can provoke asthma attacks. Almost anyone with asthma will tell you that their asthma can be triggered by a good number of things, but pollen is often number one for causing an attack. Garden , How To Choose Great Bathroom Light Fixtures allergies are common, but they need not be. Allergies from gardening , January Thoughts could be largely a thing of the past… if we're willing to make some simple changes. , How To Choose Great Bathroom Light Fixtures In fall , Comfort and Style for your Bedroom! of 1999 in Richmond, Virginia the American Lung Association of Virginia (ALAV) built a new Breathe EasyÔ office and headquarters. They had this entire large building , Warm & Toasty Outdoors with Patio Heaters constructed with the latest innovations in green , A Spring Sampler construction and sustainable design. , Warm & Toasty Outdoors with Patio Heaters No construction materials were used that would off gas , January Gardening Thoughts any harmful or toxic chemicals, no materials were used that would trigger asthma or allergies. Every attempt was made to build something that would be pleasant and healthy , Concerning Mulch - PART TWO to work in. The people who work in this office now will tell you too, that they all notice what a great improvement , Enhance Your Garden with Beautiful Edging it is. Their office is a healthy , Water Conservation in the Yard building. The ALA decided it would make perfect sense to landscape , 5 Factors of Selling a Home their new healthy , Pest control for perennials building (in some states these are now called Health Houses) with an allergy free landscape. , Maintaining Your Hot Tub OPALSÔ (the plant/allergy 1-10 numerical ranking system) was used to select only those plant , Maintaining Your Hot Tub materials that were either very low pollen, low allergy, or that were totally pollen free, allergy free. In effect they created the first true asthma friendly garden , Nontoxic Pest Control for Your Home and in the US. Health Houses , 5 Factors of Selling a Home in other states are now also adding pollen free landscapes , Do You Know How Important Your Air Conditioner Filter Is? to their green , A Spring Sampler construction, green , Coin Collecting -- A Fun Hobby buildings. A new Health House , Air Conditioning Maintenance is about to be built in Pennsylvania, and the PA Association of Landscapers and Nurserymen are helping to surround it with an asthma friendly landscape. , Building a pair of heavy duty saw horses Schools too are getting into the clean air , Building a p of heavy duty saw horses act, and in the city of Visalia, California, the Tulare County Asthma Coalition recently directed the asthma friendly landscaping , Garden planning: essential flowers for cutting year round of a newly built elementary school. Twelve keys to building , Yard Figurines your own asthma friendly garden: 1.Plant lots of female trees , Dill: The Most Important Culinary Herb in Scandinavia and female shrubs. , The Benefits of Using Landscape Software Not only will these not shed , How do you get parts for a Rainbow vacuum cleaner? any pollen, they will also trap a good deal of pollen that may stay in from somewhere else. Think of these female plants , Building a pair of heavy duty saw horses as nature's air , NURSERY ROOM DECOR cleaners. 2.Use only low pollen or no pollen lawns. , Choosing Roses For Your Landscape There are types of lawns , The Good, the Bad and the Buggy now that are pretty well pollen free and these are a big improvement , How To Choose Great Bathroom Light Fixtures over some of the older lawn , Nontoxic Pest Control for Your Home and Garden varieties. In southern states, if you have a common Bermuda grass , Viburnums - Landcape and Garden Wonders lawn, consider replacing it with a newer, more asthma friendly hybrid Bermuda grass. , The Good, the Bad and the Buggy ‘Princess 77' is a new Bermuda grass , Coin Collecting -- A Fun Hobby hybrid that can be planted from seed. , A Spring Sampler It is next to pollen free, grows , Using the Propagation Technique Known as Budding to Beautiful Ornamental Trees very low and tight, and is especially good looking. 3.With OPALSÔ 1 is best, 10 is worst. Use only plants , How to Find Cheap Home Improvement Loans with rankings of 1-5. The more plants , Wired. It's More than the Name of a Magazine in your gardens , Warm & Toasty Outdoors with Patio Heaters that have rankings ranging from 1-3, the friendlier your place , Choosing Roses For Your Landscape will be for anyone with allergies or asthma. 4.Remove any trees , Wired. 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Look around your own neighborhood, and see for yourself, , A Spring Sampler which kinds of plants , Wired. It's More than the Name of a Magazine seem to be flourishing there already. For almost every kind of plant , How To Choose Great Bathroom Light Fixtures used in landscaping, , Enhance your home with glow-in-the-dark technology there is now a no or low pollen version of it, if you know what to look for. 7.Use a wide variety of plant , The American Arborvitae Grows well in Furlong Pa. materials; diversity is good. Biodiversity always makes sense. The more diverse our gardens , Home Decorators Emboldened are the fewer problems we'll have with insects and molds. 8.Avoid plants , 5 Factors of Selling a Home with strong fragrances or odors, as they can cause asthma. Don't plant , Bonsai Care jasmines or similar vines next to entrances or exits and certainly don't use them underneath bedroom windows. , The American Arborvitae Grows well in Furlong Pa. 9.For mulch, use rock or gravel , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home instead of bark to cut down on toxic mold spores in the garden. , January ing Thoughts Flat stones , Dealing With Rose Bushes or pavers also make good, mold free mulching materials. 10.To further eliminate mold spores, encourage wild birds , How To Choose Great Bathroom Light Fixtures in your garden. , Do You Know How Important Your Air Conditioner Filter Is? Virtually all wild birds , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home eat insects, and insect damage triggers outbreaks of mold. Even the tiny hummingbirds , Water Conservation in the Yard actually eat a large number of insects. 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Wind chimes, bird , Enhance Your Garden with Beautiful Edging feeders, and birdbaths can add greatly to your enjoyment and cost little. A beautiful, , January Gardening Thoughts pollen free, allergy free, asthma friendly garden , Building a pair of heavy duty saw horses can be just the place , Wilted Hangups for healthy , Do You Know How Important Your Air Conditioner Filter Is? children, and a great place , Pest control for perennials for anyone to relax and enjoy the great outdoors. , Water Conservation in the Yard For more advice , Yard Figurines on low allergen gardening, , Yard Figurines look up allergy free gardening , Wilted Hangups on the Internet, , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home or go to your local , Orchids – Growing Exotic Beauty At Home library and read some books on this new important subject. Tom Ogren is the author of five published books, including: Allergy-free Gardening, , Bamboo flooring is Eco-friendly, elegant, and durable. Safe , Home Decorators Emboldened Sex in the Garden , Maintaining Your Hot Tub (Ten Speed Press), and What the Experts May NOT Tell You About: Growing , Bonsai Care the Perfect Lawn , Tips for Clay Soils Near Yardley Boro, PA (AOL Time Warner Books). Tom has an MS degree in Agriculture-Horticulture, taught landscape gardening , Garden planning: essential flowers for cutting year round for twenty years, owned and operated two wholesale-retail nurseries, and in northern Minnesota was host of the popular Public Radio call-in gardening , From The Science Desk show, "Tom Ogren's Wild World of Plants! , Do You Know How Important Your Air Conditioner Filter Is? " Tom (Thomas Leo Ogren) has published hundreds of articles on health and gardening. , Comfort and Style for your Bedroom! His work has appeared in diverse publications such as South Africa's Veldt and Field, in Women's Day, Alternative Medicine, the Burpee Seed , Home Decorators Emboldened Catalog, Sunset Magazine, Landscape , Burning Bushes Do Well In Doylestown Township Pa. Architecture, Der Spiegel, The London Times, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, and even the Jerusalem Post. He has also made numerous appearances on HGTV and his work was the focus of two made for TV documentaries, one by the Canadian Discovery Channel. Tom has been interviewed on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition and his groundbreaking research was featured on The CBS Evening News. He is a frequent lecturer for garden , Locating Flower Delivery Services in Los Angeles clubs, arboretums, civic groups, hospitals, medical groups, Master Gardeners, and professional associations of landscapers, landscape , Yard Figurines designers, writers, nursery people, arborists, and urban foresters. He has become well known for his fun, high energy, , Bonsai Care highly informative, unusual and provocative talks. Tom is a member of the Professional Landscape , Do You Know How Important Your Air Conditioner Filter Is? Designers Association, and the GWA, the Garden , The Good, the Bad and the Buggy Writers of America. Unlike many well-published authors, he still tries to answer all of his own email. You can contact Tom through his website, at: www.allergyfree-gardening.com Notice of Copyright: Copyright Thomas Leo OgrenÓ About the Author Thomas Ogren is the author of Allergy-Free Gardening, , The Cranberry Viburnum Will Thrive In New Hope Pa Ten Speed Press. Tom does consulting work on for the USDA, county asthma coalitions, and the American Lung Associations. He has appeared on CBS, HGTV and The Discovery Channel. His book, Safe , How to Find Cheap Home Improvement Loans Sex in the Garden, , January ing Thoughts was published 2003. In 2004 Time Warner Books published his latest: What the Experts May NOT Tell You About: Growing , Nontoxic Pest Control for Your Home and Garden the Perfect Lawn. , Bonsai Care His website: www.allergyfree-gardening.com |
  
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