Fire is on our minds. How to prevent it. How to curtail or control it. How to live with it. How to use it constructively. We remember the early winter Marshall Fire at the end of 2021 with feelings of grief and
anxiety, and watch in horror as fires ravage Los Angeles and beyond. Folks living in the relatively wild foothills and mountains have always been aware of their vulnerability to wildfire.
But now city-dwellers and people in close-in suburbs are awakened to the threat facing them (us). We are offering guidance through education, and have scheduled a Fire-Wise Landscaping class with professional landscaper Bill Melvin in April. Watch for details as our 2025 class schedule, including winter classes, develops.
Harlequin’s Gardens, we have embarked on an ongoing project of gathering and assembling information regarding the fire-resistance of a broad palette of plants for landscaping around our homes and businesses. This is a work in progress, and should not be regarded as a complete or definitive document. Our intention is simply to share with you what we know so far, and to add new information as it becomes available. Not all of the thousands of landscape plant species used in Colorado gardens and landscapes have been evaluated for their level of fire-resistance or fire-
acceleration. But we have valuable information to share with you here.