Fire resistant won’t mean fireproof when flames approach
Along with the posts from before on fire-protecting your home with fire-resistant plants, won’t guarantee a completely fire-proof home all around, but they can help for sure. Here are some tips of characteristics to keep in mind when adding fire-resistant plants and shrubs around your landscape.
• Leaves should be moist and supple.
• Plants have little dead wood and don’t become dry and dead underneath the growth.
• Sap doesn’t have an odor and is water-like and is low as well.
Plants that tend to have a high flammability tend to have dry or dead material such as needles, twigs and leaves under or around the plant. They also have oils and waxes that are volatile in the leaves and twigs. The leaves have a strong odor with smashed or crumbled and the sap also contains a strong odor as well.
Ornamental plants are highly flammable and so are many native plants too. When adding plants and shrubs to your landscape it is best to look for native ones, but it is best to plant these flammable plants and shrubs away from your home if they do happen to be threatened with wildfire threats.
When it comes to decorative mulch be sure and mix the bark mulch with some form of pebbles or river rocks or the like. This combination is less flammable than just the bark mulch alone. If you want to use decorative mulch, use it in areas that aren’t directly right by your home or a structure that could catch fire.
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