A Grower Perspective

 The National Firewise Communities Program is designed to encourage solutions to protect people and property from the risk of wildfire before a fire starts.  Firewise focuses on planning, landscaping, construction and home maintenance.  Financial grants are offered to residents making landscaping or structural improvements to their properties, which can increase the survivability of their home in the event of a wildfire.  The list of firewise plants includes many of the plants we have at the nursery.  If you apply for a firewise grant and receive one you may obtain many of the plants for your new landscape here at Pleasant Hill Nursery. Some of the plants on the list we carry include; hosta, daylily, iris, salal, vine maple, ponderosa pine, flowering currant, garden carnation, big leaf maple flowering dogwood and many others.  Contact www.firewise.org for more information.  Even if you don’t receive a grant there is much good information on ways to improve your property to protect against wildfires including the one we can help you with which is selecting the right plants for your firewise landscape.