INDOOR GARDENING PROJECTS KIDS
Posted on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
How to build enthusiasm for plants with allergy prone children?
We will be studying botany this summer as a family. I am hoping to really inspire an interest in the kids for both indoor and outdoor enjoyment of plants. The trick is they have terrible pollen allergies. Hard to enjoy something that can make you feel so stuffed up and miserable. LOL. My guess is we will need to skip flowers.
Any suggestions on low-pollen plants that kids would really get a kick out of? Do any of you have low-pollen suggestions for plants we can use in doing a landscaping project together? Grass pollen is a particular problem. Are there good alternatives to grass that we can use to bring down allergen symptoms?
Any of you garden enthusiasts plagued with allergies? How do you cope?
We live in the American Mid-South – mild winters, very wet springs, and long hot summers with little rainfall.
I like answer #1 for a start, but you may want to find something “fun” for kids to kick it off, like venus-fly-traps or the like.
Not the best plants, for sure, but still it’s active and immediate, something to grab attention.
Best of luck!
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