Silver birch trees with allergies
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Hi guys, I’m building a new house at the moment and I love gardening and trees so I have lots of trees planned for the front and back gardens and I’ve bought 8 bare rooted silver birch trees already so that they will grow nice and big before I move in and plant them. Silver birch are my favourite trees but I have just found out that they’re quite bad for people who suffer from allergies during spring time ect. Does anyone on here have silver birch trees and can you tell me if they affect your allergies?. I’m a bit concerned as I don’t have problems with allergies or plants but my girlfriend does and I don’t want her to suffer because of the trees I’ll plant. Thanks!
I suffer from hay fever all year round worst during Spring.
I grow edible flowers in the backyard and have it in salad so I'm eating pollen hoping to build up immune system.
Also everyday spend 5 to 10 mins near flowering plants to get use to pollen. I have many flowering plants both front and backyard. Lily Pilly flowers produce too much pollen and I have 9 trees. some day are ok some day just sneeze my head off.
Regardless of what ever plants you have there will be other plant's pollen that is going to cause allergies.
Just make sure she like birch trees.
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Hi guys, I’m building a new house at the moment and I love gardening and trees so I have lots of trees planned for the front and back gardens and I’ve bought 8 bare rooted silver birch trees already so that they will grow nice and big before I move in and plant them. Silver birch are my favourite trees but I have just found out that they’re quite bad for people who suffer from allergies during spring time ect. Does anyone on here have silver birch trees and can you tell me if they affect your allergies?. I’m a bit concerned as I don’t have problems with allergies or plants but my girlfriend does and I don’t want her to suffer because of the trees I’ll plant. Thanks!
I suffer from hay fever all year round worst during Spring.
I grow edible flowers in the backyard and have it in salad so I'm eating pollen hoping to build up immune system.
Also everyday spend 5 to 10 mins near flowering plants to get use to pollen. I have many flowering plants both front and backyard. Lily Pilly flowers produce too much pollen and I have 9 trees. some day are ok some day just sneeze my head off.
Regardless of what ever plants you have there will be other plant's pollen that is going to cause allergies.
Just make sure she like birch trees.
Build Thread : viewtopic.php?=31&t=81624
Landscape Thread : viewtopic.php?f=19&t=86133
Thanks Shazaw, you’re right in the fact that there will be a lot of plants and trees that may cause my girlfriend allergies besides the silver birch. We also have a Chinese elm tree in the nature strip that the developer has planted and I’ve read that they aren’t great for allergy sufferers either. My girlfriend loves silver birch trees but neither of us have really lived around them before so we don’t know first hand about allergies related to them, and seeing as we are planting so many I just wanted to be sure but I don’t think it can be avoided as my girlfriend gets allergies from all plants and grass really. I hope your plan works for you and you build up an immunity to pollen, it’s a good idea, Thankyou for your advice 🙂
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