Landscaping on the Edge: Adapting California Residential Home Development to Wildfire Realities

By Paul Wong from LandCreative, Inc.

Wildfires are changing California gardens. Especially those along the edges of New Developments and natural open spaces.

An ideal lush, or palm tree filled garden along a natural open space will be changing in the future. California wildfires have forced local fire agencies to very strict landscape fire codes. With these new codes, community landscapes and gardens will have an austere look, with less trees and shrubs.

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