safe sex in the garden And Other Propositions for an Allergy-Free World by Thomas Leo Ogren Residential and commercial landscapes are loaded with male-only trees and shrubs since they are litter- and therefore maintenance-free. But given a choice, what would you rather do - sweep or battle hay fever? The fact that our urban forests have been propagated with male-clones is a crime on two counts: male plants are the pollen-producing offenders, and without female plants to absorb pollen, allergenic pollen counts are on the rise
nationwide. In SAFE SEX IN THE GARDEN, horticulturist Thomas Leo Ogren explores this safe sex issue (plant sex, that is!), as well as many other allergy-related topics…
This and Ogren's previous book, "Allergy-Free
Gardening" should be on everyone's shelf, whether they garden or not. If you want to know why allergy incidence has quadrupled in the last few decades and… Safe Sex in the Garden should be required reading for anybody that is in any way involved with
making decisions on what plants will be part of both our public and private spaces. Statistics only…
