2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Sometimes staying in the country can be a serious challenge for allergy sufferers for the simple reason that allergenic plants bloom in their garden! Watery eyes, sneezing and runny nose - these are far from all the symptoms that can accompany such an unpleasant condition as allergies; in some cases, serious complications can occur! In order to protect themselves to the maximum from any unpleasant consequences, allergy sufferers do not hurt to know what kind of vegetation can be grown on the site, and which plants it is still better to refuse
Forbidden plants allergens
It will not hurt all allergic summer residents to replace allergy-provoking flowers and shrubs with options that are safe from this point of view - if they grow on the site, then it is advisable to eliminate them as soon as possible, but if they are not on the site, then you must immediately give up even thoughts about growing them!
The list of allergenic plants is very impressive: it is customary to include thorny conifers (fir, as well as juniper with spruce), some types of weeds (wild rosemary or wheatgrass, plantain with coltsfoot, wormwood, as well as Mary, quinoa, etc.) dandelion), a number of lawn cereals (oats with bluegrass, hedgehog, as well as meadow fescue or timothy), certain berry crops (raspberries and strawberries with strawberries), a number of cultivated flowers (marigolds with calendula, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, digitalis, asters, geraniums, lilies, daisies, lilies of the valley and dahlias), as well as a part of ornamental shrubs and flowering trees (bird cherry, hazel, buddleya, bladders, poplar, birch, rhododendron, jasmine, ash, willow, lilac, alder, bird cherry and oak).
Most of the above plants pose a danger to allergy sufferers exclusively during the flowering period - usually the body reacts negatively to their pollen. Nevertheless, sometimes, instead of pollen, such small plant particles as scales, hairy stems with leaflets, as well as the remnants of leaves after mowing shrubs growing in the garden and chopped grass left after mowing the lawns, can act as a causative agent of allergies instead of pollen.
Some people suffer from allergies to too strong or saturated aromas, and sometimes allergies can also occur to essential oils, and even with the most ordinary touch to them (sometimes it happens that when working with bulbs of daffodils or tulips, an unpleasant-looking skin rash appears, and if you scratch yourself with needles, you can get hives).
It cannot be disregarded the fact that some types of allergic manifestations have a certain relationship with each other. For example, if a person suffers from a food allergy to fragrant strawberries or raspberries, then you should not plant such rosaceous crops in the garden as spiraea, gravilat, duchenea, rose hips with roses, etc., and if you are allergic to citrus fruits, you will have to abandon the idea of growing rutovye - ponzirus, as well as ash, ptelei or rue.
What can be grown?
To create a hypoallergenic garden, it is important first of all to create an appropriate hypoallergenic microclimate - it is very important that there is not too much open space on the site, as it will in every possible way contribute to the appearance of drafts. And it will be very good if the site is surrounded by mature forest trees or a solid fence. In addition, an impressive amount of water will contribute to the creation of a favorable microclimate on the site to a large extent - additional moisture actively blocks the excessive volatility of pollen. An excellent solution would be at least a small summer cottage, which can also be decorated with spectacular flowers - such aquatic plants as hornwort, elodea, lotuses and water lilies are either pollinated by insects or spread their own pollen exclusively in water, which also does not cause allergies.
Allergenic lawn plants can be cut before they bloom, but it will be much easier to plant non-allergenic plants on the lawn right away. Ground cover plants such as veronica creeping, mazus, moss, tenacious, budra or kotula are especially well suited for these purposes. Some succulents, which emit a very small amount of agave pollen, as well as aloe or cacti, have proven themselves just as well. And you can safely plant all kinds of ferns, white clover, heuchera, subulate phlox, zelenchuk, periwinkle, bacopa and mihenia on the site.
For placement in alpine slides or rockeries, hypoallergenic plants such as bamboo, ferns with mosses, azaleas or alpine forget-me-nots are perfect. And to create hedges or decorate fences, you can safely make a choice in favor of Amur or girlish grapes, as well as clematis, morning glory and fragrant honeysuckle honeysuckle. Shrubs such as cotoneaster, broom, barberry, forsythia, cypresses, weigela, thuja, viburnum, pachisandra, honeysuckle and Dorenbosha's snowberry with irga do not pose a danger to allergy sufferers.
Among the spicy herbs, you can give preference to rosemary, thyme, as well as sage with mint and lavender, and the best garden flowers for allergy sufferers are pansies, delphiniums, astilbe, violets, bells, eringium, phlox, daylilies, snowdrops, scabiosa, irises, astrania snapdragons, forget-me-nots, dicentra, petunias, pelargoniums, crocuses, as well as lead, poppies and lobelia.
As you can see, allergies are absolutely no reason to deny yourself the pleasure of admiring the luxurious blooming garden!
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