books by Thomas Leo Ogren (landscaping gardening allergy)

books by Thomas Leo Ogren

books:

Safe Sex in the Garden and Other Propositions for an Allergy-Free World

14 reviews
Thomas Leo Ogren

Ten Speed Press, 2003

A must for everyone's bookshelf
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 asthma deaths have reach alarming numbers, this book explains it. Ogren's OPALS ranking scale can help us choose appropriate trees for our own gardens, plus he gives lists of recommended ground ...

Allergy-Free Gardening: The Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Landscaping

30 reviews
Thomas Leo Ogren

Ten Speed Press, 2000

Changed the way I look at plants.
Allergy-Free Gardening really did change the way I look at plants. I have a background in both horticulture and botany and yet there was so much new material that I learned from this book that I was frankly, amazed. I knew a bit about plant sex, but in retrospect, very little. In Thomas Ogren's eyes all plants are not created equally--or at least they certainly are not equally of value to us. In ...