{"id":4460,"date":"2022-03-11T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=pal&#038;p=4460"},"modified":"2024-04-11T10:05:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T17:05:23","slug":"fire-resistant-garden-design","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/fire-resistant-garden-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire resistant garden design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are there resources for designing fire-resistant gardens in the Pacific Northwest?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Miller Library has the book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=11197\">Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes<\/a><\/em> (also available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firefree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fire-Resistant-Plants.pdf\">online<\/a>) which should be a good starting point.<\/p>\n<p>The King County Forestry Program also has a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/your.kingcounty.gov\/dnrp\/library\/water-and-land\/forestry\/forestfire\/FirewisePlantsPugetSoundBasin-2011.pdf\"><em>Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Puget Sound Basin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who garden further east in Washington, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/cascadiacd.org\/images\/site_graphics\/FW-Landscape-Brochure.pdf\">list<\/a> from Chelan\/Douglas County Master Gardeners.<\/p>\n<p>Still further afield, there are many resources from California:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readyforwildfire.org\/prepare-for-wildfire\/get-ready\/fire-resistant-landscaping\/\">Ready for Wildfire<\/a> webpage<\/li>\n<li>Book in the Miller Library: <a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=6035\"><em>California Wildfire Landscaping\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tips for a fire-safe garden from online magazine<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenista.com\/posts\/landscape-design-10-tips-fire-safe-garden\/\">Gardenista<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Two articles from <em>Pacific Horticulture<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacifichorticulture.org\/articles\/resilient-landscape-design\/\">Resilient landscape design<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacifichorticulture.org\/articles\/landscape-design-for-fire-safety\/\">Landscape design for fire safety<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are increasing numbers of gardening books that address climate change and related challenges. Here are two examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=14833\"><em>Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Lan<\/em>d<\/a> by Gary Paul Nabhan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=8823\"><em>The Weather-Resilient Garden<\/em><\/a> by Charles W. G. Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"taxonomy-keyword has-text-align-right wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/climate\/\" rel=\"tag\">Climate<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/keyword\/firescaping\/\" rel=\"tag\">Firescaping<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there resources for designing fire-resistant gardens in the Pacific Northwest? &nbsp; The Miller Library has the book\u00a0Fire-Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (also available online) which should be a good starting point. The King County Forestry Program also has a list of Fire-resistant Landscape Plants for the Puget Sound Basin. For those who garden further east in Washington, there is a list from Chelan\/Douglas County Master Gardeners. Still further afield, there are many resources from California: From the Ready for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/fire-resistant-garden-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire resistant garden design<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[330,1034],"class_list":["post-4460","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-climate","keyword-firescaping"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/4460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}