Landscaping for Bushfire Garden Design and Plant Selection (KTE0028)

Landscaping for Bushfire Garden Design and Plant Selection, Contents:

SECTION 01 About this publication

What information is covered?

What is landscaping for bushfire?

Why is landscaping for bushfire important?

SECTION 02 Bushfire behaviour

How bushfire destroys houses

SECTION 03 Planning a garden

New houses

Existing houses

SECTION 04 Designing a garden

Design principles

Types of gardens

SECTION 05 Choosing suitable plants

Plant flammability

Plant moisture content

Environmental weeds

SECTION 06 Maintaining the garden

SECTION 07 Plant selection key

SECTION 08 Resources

WHAT IS LANDSCAPING FOR BUSHFIRE? Landscaping for Bushfire Garden Design and Plant Selection

Landscaping for bushfire involves planning, designing, planting and managing the area around a house.

The aim is to keep the area around a house and other structures (such as carports and sheds) free of plants that can easily catch fire and then ignite the buildings. Landscaping for bushfire can be used to create new – or modify existing – gardens. It takes into account a number of factors that include:

• understanding how fire behaves
• creating defendable space
• the location of plants within the garden
• the flammability of individual plants
• the need for ongoing maintenance.

Landscaping using appropriate design principles and plant selection can increase the likelihood of a house surviving a bushfire – even if the plan is to leave early.

Poorly located vegetation that burns readily may expose a house to increased levels of radiant heat and flame contact.

Well-placed vegetation with low flammability may actually help protect houses by:

• reducing the amount of radiant heat received by a house
• reducing the chance of direct flame contact on a house
• reducing wind speed around a house
• deflecting and filtering embers
• reducing flammable landscaping materials within the defendable space.

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