Landscapes as your first defense
Landscapes play a major role in the resilience of your property to bushfire. The layout, plant choices, paths, garden features and even waste water management can contribute to a less fire prone garden. Strategically placed windbreaks or hedges can filter embers or deflect radiant heat from your house. Hamish has 25 years experience in landscape design throughout Central Victoria and has designed over 150 gardens with bushfire and drought resilience key components to his sustainable design philosophy.
Designing an appropriate bushfire resilient garden is part of responding to the requirements of the Bushfire Management Overlay to create defendable space zones around the home, reducing radiant heat exposure and minimising bushfire impact on the household.
Beauty, productivity and resilience
There are many native and exotic plants that are appropriate for planting in the bushfire resilient garden. Full planting plans and species recommendations for bushfire resilience are a part of our design approach.
Landscapes play a major role in the resilience of your property to bushfire. The layout, plant choices, paths, garden features and even waste water management can contribute to a less fire prone garden. Strategically placed windbreaks or hedges can filter embers or deflect radiant heat from your house. Hamish has 25 years experience in landscape design throughout Central Victoria and has designed over 150 gardens with bushfire and drought resilience key components to his sustainable design philosophy.
Designing an appropriate bushfire resilient garden is part of responding to the requirements of the Bushfire Management Overlay to create defendable space zones around the home, reducing radiant heat exposure and minimising bushfire impact on the household.
Beauty, productivity and resilience
There are many native and exotic plants that are appropriate for planting in the bushfire resilient garden. Full planting plans and species recommendations for bushfire resilience are a part of our design approach.
Succulents are full of moisture and minerals making them a naturally fire resilient groundcover.
Gravel surfaces make excellent breaks to ground fires and can be placed strategically around the house.
Stone walls make excellent radiation shields around the garden.