RE: Fire retardant plants

Here another California Dept. of Forestry website for fire retardant
planting:

http://www.firesafe.com/firescape.html

Cheryl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-medit-plants@ucdavis.edu 
> [o*@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Tony and 
> Moira Ryan
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:46 PM
> To: Mediterannean Plants List
> Subject: Re: Fire retardant plants
> 
> 
> nancy@lighthousenet.com wrote:
> > Greetings from Santa Cruz, Isabel.
> > 
> > In addition to these addresses:
> > http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/
> > and
> > http://www.laspilitas.com/fire.htm
> > here are a few tidbits from other websites:
> > 
> > Hope this is of some use to you.
> > Good luck,
> > Nancy
> > 
> > ________________
> > Fire Retardant Checklist:
> Nancy
> Though we have very little problem with forest fires in most parts of 
> NZ, mainly I think because many of our local species seem 
> hard to burn, 
> I was interested in thsi most useful and  comprehensive information.
> 
> When we do get serious fires here they occur almost entirely in 
> introduced species such as pine and other conifer plantations 
> or stands 
> of Eucalyptus and especially in scrubby areas where the main 
> species is 
> gorse. It is usually noticed that once the fire impinges on native 
> vegetation it very soon dies out.
> 
> It seems to me that where the climate will stand it, species of for 
> instance Pittosporum, Coprosma, Pseudopanax and Phormium 
> might be safely 
> considered for planting around houses in danger areas.
> 
> Moira
> 
> -- 
> Tony & Moira Ryan,
> Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ.     Pictures of our garden at:-
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
>
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