Re: cut flower pollinators

Jesse Bell, my allergist says that pollens that travel by air currents
are the ones that trouble allergy sufferers. The ones that are large
enough to require the assistance of bees, etc., to get from place to
place don't pose much allergy risk because they aren't airborne. So,
messy though they may be, sunflowers dusty with pollen(in theory,
anyway) shouldn't cause problems unless a susceptible person puts
his/her face into the flower <s>.


Wendy

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Bell <jesserenebell@hotmail.com>
Sent: Oct 21, 2003 4:25 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] cut flower pollinators

Cool site.  Thanks Kitty.  I just printed that off.  One of the books I have 
on flower farming has some of those listed.  This year I grew some 
"pollenless" sunflowers because they said the pollen on sunflowers is messy 
and a lot of people are highly allergic to it.  But they didn't turn out as 
pretty (at least I don't think so).  But it was a very odd gardening year 
this year.  I'll try again and see how they do.  I like the one sunflower 
called "chianti".  Dark burgundy and yellow.



>From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>To: "Agardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Subject: [CHAT] cut flower pollinators
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:29:05 -0500
>
>Jesse,
>You're most likely already familiar with this, but I just finished reading 
>a
>Sept TAG article about pollinators.  In the resource sidebar it gave info 
>on
>a USDA fact sheet, "Pollinator-Friendly Cut Flower Plants".
>It reads:
>Developed by USDA Horticulturist  Leslie Gilbert, this fact sheet is
>designed to help market gardeners and owners of small farms choose cut
>flowers that will attract pollinators and other beneficial insects.
>Available at:
>http://www.smallfarmsuccess.info/poll_friendly.cfm
>
>Kitty
>
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