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Seasonal Tips - Spring

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Fire smart landscaping tips:

 

By paying attention to certain garden practices you can make your landscape less prone to fires. The keys are to reduce potential fuel for fires, and to interrupt paths fires may take. Especially in hot and dry summers, having a landscape that is fire resistant can minimize fires starting through careless or accidental means. And it can help minimize a fire spreading, especially if in a neighborhood with other houses close by, should a fire begin in a building. A fire-safe landscape can increase property values, conserve water.
 

Creating a fire-safe landscape isn't expensive, relying on your choices of landscape materials, and the design. It is more important "how" you plant, than "what" you plant.

 

 

Some examples of hardy, fire-resistant plants to consider for northern landscapes include: lawns, annuals, and bulbs—all perennials--many, including yarrow, bergenia, coreopsis, coralbells, daylilies, hosta, iris, perennial geraniums groundcovers--ajuga, bearberry, pachysandra, creeping phlox, sedum shrubs (deciduous)-- burning bush, mockorange, spirea, snowberry, lilac, roses, viburnums shrubs (evergreen)--cotoneaster, Carol Mackie daphne trees (tall)--many deciduous such as maples, beech, ash, mountain ash, willow

trees (short)-- serviceberry, birch.

 

A home is perhaps the largest investment most make in their lifetimes. Landscape lean, clean, and green to create a fire-safe landscape.

 

 

December 12 2024

Regular Session of Council

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