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Australian Plants for Fire Prone Central Coast Gardens 5 Hardenbergia violacea False sarsparilla Kennedia protrata Running postman Australian Plants for Fire Prone Myoporum parvifolium Creeping boobialla Myoporum debile Amulla Scaevola aemula Fairy fan flower Central Coast Gardens Shrubs Acacia iteaphylla Flinders Range wattle Fire has been part of the Australian landscape • Avoid having a continuous canopy of trees Acacia sophorae Coastal wattle for hundreds of thousands of years, with the which allows the fire to be carried through Anigozanthos species Kangaroo paw plants adapting to its occurrence. the tree tops. Banksia marginata Silver Banksia All plant material will eventually burn if • Avoid growing rough fibrous bark trees Banksia spinulosa Hair-pin Banksia subjected to enough heat for a long enough eg. Syncarpia glomulifera -Turpentine tree or Correa glabra Rock Correa time. However, some are able to resist the force trees that produce long ribbon strips of bark, Eremophila maculata Emu bush of fire better than others. These fire resistant eg. Eucalyptus viminalis -Manna gum. Hakea salicifolia Willow leafed Hakea Coast wattle plants are able to slow the progress of a fire Myoporum insulare Boobialla Acacia sophorae • Fit all external doors with draft sealers, Philotheca myoporoides Long leaf wax flower and thus help with fire control. Select trees with screens to all windows. If possible, avoid syn. Eriostemon myoporoides low oil and resin content in their leaves, smooth using a combustible doormat. Solanum lanceolatum Kangaroo apple bark and high leaf moisture content such as • Always position your gas bottle with the vent Pittosporum undulatum Sweet pittosporum many of the rainforest plants. pointing away from the house. If fire Trees Pittosporum phillyreoides Acacia howittii Sticky wattle Pittosporum rhombifolium threatens and your home uses bottled gas– With careful planning, planting and regular Acacia saligna Golden wreath wattle turn off, disconnect and remove the gas maintenance, we can make our properties Acacia pravissima Ovens wattle Rainforest trees bottles to a fire safe location. safer. Acacia prominens Gosford wattle Acmena smithii Lilly pilly Acacia terminalis Sunshine wattle Buckinghamia celsissima Ivory curl tree • Plant an ‘ember catcher’- a row of tall rainforest The following list of plants have all shown Angophora costata Sydney red gum Cuttsia viburnea Native elderberry trees to catch embers and slow the fire. some resistance to fire- Angophora hispida Dwarf apple Callicoma serratifolia Black wattle • Regularly clean leaves from gutters and roof • by acting as a windbreak, Banksia integrifolia Coastal Banksia Elaeocarpus reticulatus Blueberry ash Brachychiton acerifolius Flame tree Glochidion ferdinandi Cheese tree valleys. • by absorbing and deflecting the heat, Lophostemon confertus Brush box Grevillea robusta Silky oak • Allow for a clear space around the house. If • by trapping burning embers and sparks from a Hymenosporum flavum Native frangipani possible this should be at least 5 metres wide fire. Melia azederach White cedar and it needs to be a hard surface or lawn. Podocarpus elatus Plum pine • Don’t allow branches to overhang buildings. Fire resistant native plants Stenocarpus sinuatus Firewheel tree Avoid growing plants up against the walls of buildings. Botanical Name Common Name Produced by the Australian Plants Society, Central • A fire break can be created by positioning a Prostrate and low growing plants Coast Group in conjunction with the Central Coast tennis court, swimming pool, lawn or car Ajuga australis Austral bugle Waste Board, Gosford City Council and Wyong parking area between your home and the Chrysocephalum Common everlasting Shire Council. direct line of a fire threat. apiculatum daisy Carpobrotus glaucescens Pigface • Maintain a regular tree and shrub Banksia Dichondra repens Kidney weed marginata maintenance program, removing excessive Grevillea “Bronze Rambler” growth, dead wood and rake up fallen leaves Grevillea x gaudichaudii and sticks. Grevillea “Royal Mantle” 5 Hardenbergia violacea False sarsparilla Kennedia protrata Running postman Australian Plants for Fire Prone Myoporum parvifolium Creeping boobialla Myoporum debile Amulla Scaevola aemula Fairy fan flower Central Coast Gardens Shrubs Acacia iteaphylla Flinders Range wattle Fire has been part of the Australian landscape • Avoid having a continuous canopy of trees Acacia sophorae Coastal wattle for hundreds of thousands of years, with the which allows the fire to be carried through Anigozanthos species Kangaroo paw plants adapting to its occurrence. the tree tops. Banksia marginata Silver Banksia All plant material will eventually burn if • Avoid growing rough fibrous bark trees Banksia spinulosa Hair-pin Banksia subjected to enough heat for a long enough eg. Syncarpia glomulifera -Turpentine tree or Correa glabra Rock Correa time. However, some are able to resist the force trees that produce long ribbon strips of bark, Eremophila maculata Emu bush of fire better than others. These fire resistant eg. Eucalyptus viminalis -Manna gum. Hakea salicifolia Willow leafed Hakea Coast wattle plants are able to slow the progress of a fire Myoporum insulare Boobialla Acacia sophorae • Fit all external doors with draft sealers, Philotheca myoporoides Long leaf wax flower and thus help with fire control. Select trees with screens to all windows. If possible, avoid syn. Eriostemon myoporoides low oil and resin content in their leaves, smooth using a combustible doormat. Solanum lanceolatum Kangaroo apple bark and high leaf moisture content such as • Always position your gas bottle with the vent Pittosporum undulatum Sweet pittosporum many of the rainforest plants. pointing away from the house. If fire Trees Pittosporum phillyreoides Acacia howittii Sticky wattle Pittosporum rhombifolium threatens and your home uses bottled gas– With careful planning, planting and regular Acacia saligna Golden wreath wattle turn off, disconnect and remove the gas maintenance, we can make our properties Acacia pravissima Ovens wattle Rainforest trees bottles to a fire safe location. safer. Acacia prominens Gosford wattle Acmena smithii Lilly pilly Acacia terminalis Sunshine wattle Buckinghamia celsissima Ivory curl tree • Plant an ‘ember catcher’- a row of tall rainforest The following list of plants have all shown Angophora costata Sydney red gum Cuttsia viburnea Native elderberry trees to catch embers and slow the fire. some resistance to fire- Angophora hispida Dwarf apple Callicoma serratifolia Black wattle • Regularly clean leaves from gutters and roof • by acting as a windbreak, Banksia integrifolia Coastal Banksia Elaeocarpus reticulatus Blueberry ash Brachychiton acerifolius Flame tree Glochidion ferdinandi Cheese tree valleys. • by absorbing and deflecting the heat, Lophostemon confertus Brush box Grevillea robusta Silky oak • Allow for a clear space around the house. If • by trapping burning embers and sparks from a Hymenosporum flavum Native frangipani possible this should be at least 5 metres wide fire. Melia azederach White cedar and it needs to be a hard surface or lawn. Podocarpus elatus Plum pine • Don’t allow branches to overhang buildings. Fire resistant native plants Stenocarpus sinuatus Firewheel tree Avoid growing plants up against the walls of buildings. Botanical Name Common Name Produced by the Australian Plants Society, Central • A fire break can be created by positioning a Prostrate and low growing plants Coast Group in conjunction with the Central Coast tennis court, swimming pool, lawn or car Ajuga australis Austral bugle Waste Board, Gosford City Council and Wyong parking area between your home and the Chrysocephalum Common everlasting Shire Council. direct line of a fire threat. apiculatum daisy Carpobrotus glaucescens Pigface • Maintain a regular tree and shrub Banksia Dichondra repens Kidney weed marginata maintenance program, removing excessive Grevillea “Bronze Rambler” growth, dead wood and rake up fallen leaves Grevillea x gaudichaudii and sticks. Grevillea “Royal Mantle”.
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