
Breathing clear with Prof Jennifer Gabrys
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast
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Plant Communities to Improve Air Quality
The Fido Sensor Toolkit has plants that are known to be air pollution absorbing or capturing plants. It also includes scenarios for how you might plant and so we tested this out in a few demonstrator gardens. What's really key is to think about plants not just as you know an air purifying machine that will absorb pollution but to plant them in a kind of architectural way where if you have a garden on a busy road then you know it would make sense to plant something like a green screen with ivy.
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