Worst Plants for Allergies

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While spring and fall allergies cause the same symptoms (sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny nose), their triggers are different.

Spring allergies, which run from February to late July, are brought on by pollen from trees, grasses, and weeds. Fall allergies go from mid-August through the first autumn frost, and are chiefly set off by pollen from the ragweed plant, mold, and dust mites.

Worst Plants for Allergies

You can expect more plant pollen and seasonal allergies if you put any of these plants in your yard. 

Flowers/herbs

Amaranth (pigweed), chamomile, chrysanthemums, daisies, goldenrod, ordinary sunflowers.

Shrubs/vines

Cypress, jasmine vine, juniper, wisteria.

Trees

Alder, ash (male), aspen (male), beech, birch, box elder (male), cedar (male), cottonwood (male), elm, hickory, red and silver maples (male), mulberry (male), oak, olive, palm (male), pecan, pine, poplar (male), sycamore, walnut, willow (male).

Grasses

Bermuda, fescue, Johnson, June, orchard, perennial rye, redtop, salt grass, sweet vernal, timothy.

Weeds

Cocklebur, ragweed, Russian thistle, sagebrush. 

Best Plants for Allergies

You'll have fewer plant pollen worries with these plants that produce little to no airborne pollen. So you can enjoy working with them and watching them grow. 

Flowers

Begonia, cactus, chenille, clematis, columbine, crocus, daffodil, dusty miller, geranium, hosta, impatiens, iris, lily, pansy, periwinkle, petunia, phlox, rose, salvia, snapdragon, thrift, tulip, verbena, zinnia.

Hypoallergenic sunflower seeds

All these grow 5 to 6 feet tall -- and the pollen is too heavy to be spread easily.

Apricot Twist (apricot with gold center), Infrared Mix (dark crimson, ruby, golden-reds), The Joker (showy red-and-yellow double blooms), Pro-Cut Bicolor (stunning mahogany and yellow with black centers).

Shrubs

Azalea, boxwood (if clipped often), hibiscus, hydrangea, viburnum.

Trees

Apple, cherry, Chinese fan palm (female), fern pine (female), dogwood, English holly (female), Bradford pear, crepe myrtle, hardy rubber tree, magnolia, pear, plum, red maple (female).

Grasses

St. Augustine.

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Where To Bring Your Mom On Mother's Day (LONG ISLAND NY)

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Its really hard to figure out where to bring your mom on mother's day... Also every mother is different, try to go always to the places she likes the most but here are some wonderful ideas where she would like to go.

The long island browser this year found many wonderful places where you can bring your mother... from a day in the spa to brunch at the long island aquarium.

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Houseplant Appreciation Day (February 10th)

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The holidays are over. The decorations have been put away for another year. The house looks a little plain, a little drab. In the greyishness of January, your eye catches something in the corner of the room. Why, it's a houseplant! Funny, but with all of the holiday hubabuloo, you've all but forgotten your houseplants.

Today is THE day to get back to tending to, and loving your houseplants. And, it's also a day to appreciate just how special and important they are. They are therapeutic, lifting your mood and outlook. They add warmth and a calming effect. If you are a gardner, they give you an opportunity to play in the dirt, until spring arrives in the far, distant future.

Growing houseplants is pretty easy. They need a little sunlight, water, occasional nutrients, and a little love..

How to Celebrate Houseplant Appreciation Day:

There are lots of ways to celebrate and enjoy this day. They include:

· Start by making sure that the houseplants you already have, are well watered. Give them a special treat today... a little fertilizer.

· If you do not have any houseplants, or just have a couple, buy a new houseplant (or two) on this day).

· Learn more about the benefits of houseplants to your health.

· Stand by your houseplant and breath in the air! It's giving off oxygen.

· Teach your kids about growing and caring for plants.

· Give a houseplant to a friend, especially the elderly or shut-ins.

· Talk to your plants. Yes, people believe plants respond positively, when you talk to them.

Origin of  Houseplant Appreciation Day:

 

This holiday was created by the folks at The Gardener's Network

It was created for two reasons:

1.      To remind people after the holidays, that their forgotten houseplants need a little attention.

2.      To celebrate beneficial houseplants and to encourage growing houseplants.

Valentines And Cupid

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Valentine's Day is on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it remains a working day in most of them. It is the second most celebrated holiday around the world second to New Year's Day.

St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. The most popular martyrology associated with Saint Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry, during his imprisonment, he is said to have healed the daughter of his jailer Asterius. Legend states that before his execution he wrote "from your Valentine" as a farewell to her.

The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. By the 15th century, it had evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

Cupid (Latin Cupido, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, affection and erotic love. He is often portrayed as the son of the goddess Venus, with a father rarely mentioned in ancient Roman sources. His Greek counterpart is Eros. Cupid is also known in Latin as Amor. Although Eros appears in Classical Greek art as a slender winged youth, during the Hellenistic period he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that remain a distinguishing attribute; a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid's arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire.

Cupid's ability to compel love and desire plays an instigating role in several myths or literary scenarios.

Cupid was a continuously popular figure in the Middle Ages, when under Christian influence he often had a dual nature as Heavenly and Earthly love, and in the Renaissance, when a renewed interest in classical philosophy endowed him with complex allegorical meanings. In contemporary popular culture, Cupid is shown shooting his bow to inspire romantic love, often as an icon of Valentine's Day.

Source: WIKIPEDIA

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Old Westbury Garden Voted Best Public Garden In Long Island!

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The votes are in! Long Islanders voted Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury the best public garden on Long Island!

There may not be anything that could make Old Westbury Gardens anymore beautiful. The Charles II-style mansion is surrounded by 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes. There are also many events held on the property including guided tours, classic car shows, indoor and outdoor concerts, book signings, horticultural demonstrations and workshops, Scottish games, botanical gardens and 

gardening classes.

Coming in at second place is Planting Field Arboretum in Oyster Bay and in third place was Bayard Cutting Arboretum in Oakdale!

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