Re: More garden photos:Medit plants for a California hillside garden

Wow David, another wonderful garden!

I am curious about your statement regarding slow burning plants.  From all the research I've done, there have been  no studies nor documentation of flammability of plants, native or otherwise, in California.  All the organizations and individuals I spoke with said they'd gotten their lists of "fire resistant" plants from someone else who, when I contacted them, said it was from someone else, and so on.  Finally, one of the botanic gardens told me that years ago, a volunteer took leaves home and put them in his oven - then based their list on that.  Fire departments told me it was based on firemen's observations in the field, but of course the conditions vary so much from fire to fire and region to region, that those observations make a good starting point but don't tell you anything about predicting flammability.

So  Im very curious to know what resources did you use to base your selections in terms of fire resistance.

Nan
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