Real World Gardener Allergy and Cut Flowers in Talking Flowers

TALKING FLOWERS <p style="font-weight:400;">Allergy and Cut Flowers</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Cut flowers bring surprise and admiration for the giver but if they trigger itchy eyes and runny noses, chances are you have an allergy to those particular flowers.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Pollen allergies can trigger hayfever type reactions so flowers with lots of pollen should be avoided.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">But how to tell?</p> Botanical Bite <p style="font-weight:400;">Only male flowers produce pollen. </p> <ul style="font-weight:400;"><li> Dioecious plants have either only male or either female flowers on any one individual plant. These plants rely on mainly the wind, rarely insects to carry pollen from a male plant to a female plant to reproduce.</li> </ul> <ul style="font-weight:400;"><li>Monoecious plants, contain both male and female flowers on the same plant, meaning that pollen must travel from flower to flower but not from plant to plant. Some monoecious plants contain male and female parts in the same flower. They’re often called “perfect flowers” and don't need any pollen to be transferred at all, as a single flower can reproduce on its own.</li> </ul> Top 10 allergy-heavy plants <p style="font-weight:400;">The most obvious flowers and plants to steer away from are those that are wind pollinated. Believe it or not, grasses have flowers, but they're not so obvious or showy. All grass flowers are wind pollinated, these include your lawn grass.<a href='https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sBSxR5jD3HQ/XuBZcCkv00I/AAAAAAAAiF4/rurP7GvFoIkeqiVMP2mLdD1pFAek2bjlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Value%2Bfor%2Bmoney%2Bflowers4.jpg'></a></p> <ol style="font-weight:400;"><li>Baby's breath  (Gypsophila sp.) is popular in many florist bouquets and are planted in cottage gardens because they're easy to grow from seed. Although the flowers are small, they carry heaps of pollen of pollen. There are singles and doubles so opt for the double flowering types because they have less pollen. More petals equals le