We have red oaks, white oaks, red maples, sugar maples, tupelo, holly, cherry, magnolia, and various smaller trees and shrubs. The pollen load this year has been enormous, perhaps due to a lot of rain and unseasonably warm weather.
Yellow, green and white dust-like pollen everywhere.
For me, no allergies this year. Nor for my husband, who usually reacts to tree pollen.
Maybe because the air has been full of moisture, so the pollen components don't aerosolize?
It would be nice if urban tree planners were more sensitive to allergies and so forth. I have been dithering for about a year as to whether to plant a ginko tree or not. It successfully weathered the past very hard winter in just a small pot. Seems quite hardy. |
