HOUSE
start with your home
LANDSCAPE
design a native &
fire-wise landscape
PLANTS
understand your environment
SURROUNDING
WILDLANDS
critical ecosystem services
A resilient landscape is fire-wise, water wise and promotes biodiversity by using California native plants. These gardens use sustainable practices, plant selection, and maintenance to reduce the risk of fire in the defensible space zone. Resilient gardens save water, protect us from fire and promote biodiversity.
Design by April Owens, photo by Saxon Holt/PhotoBotanic
The Resilient Landscapes Coalition provides practical information to homeowners, landscape professionals, and defensible space inspectors about implementing defensible and resilient landscapes in the 0-100 foot zone around the home, based on the best scientific research and gardening expertise. Many homeowners believe that defensible space requires extensive clearing of trees and shrubs. The result may be unattractive, bare landscapes that invite invasive, fire prone plants. Others may feel overwhelmed to the point of inactivity, and intimidated by the possibility of creating a “moonscape”.
Fire-wise landscaping integrates proper plant selection, placement and maintenance, with features such as retaining walls, paths, fencing, and open areas to reduce a property’s vulnerability to wildfire. Careful planning and design will reduce the possibility of ignition, lower fire intensity, and slow the spread of fire – all factors which will increase a home’s survivability during a wildfire.
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Announcements
The Resilient Landscapes Coalition has an upcoming free bilingual webinar series: Resilient Landscaping: Gardening in the Defensible Space Zone Four–Part Weekly Series. These workshops will occur on Tuesday evenings, June 9th, 16th, 23rd, & 30th, from 5:30-6:30pm.
Registrants will learn how to create and maintain a firewise, sustainable garden that supports biodiversity while meeting County code requirements. We’ll help registrants navigate the new and updated California Zone 0 guidelines, including considerations for trees, existing landscapes, plant placement, and maintenance, to preserve and even enhance wildlife habitat, while keeping properties and neighborhoods firewise and sustainable.
Resilient Landscaping: Gardening in the Defensible Space Zone Four–Part Series
When: June 9th, 16th, 23rd, & 30th, from 5:30-6:30pm
Where: FREE on Zoom!
THE RESILIENT LANDSCAPES COALITION PARTNERSHIP