susan floerchinger

THEY SMELL LIKE GARBAGE WHEN THEY BURN

I have always detested the mighty cottonwood tree! Why you ask? I am allergic to its toxic pollan the male tree emits when producing catkins. When the female catkins release the fluffy white cotton seeds and it begins to waft slowly across the hot summers air, like a blizzard my head fills with congestion, and I can no longer take deep, healthy, life supporting breaths of air.