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20.01.2022 Deciduous trees and some evergreen shrubs, such as this Coprosma in the background, are of low flammability. It's important to keep the area underneath and around such shrubs as Coprosma, reasonably clear, but quite easy in this case as they are not great litterers.

20.01.2022 Taken several years ago the image shows me in my full mitigation outfit, including face protection. The cordless brush cutter has a metal disk which means there is a chance it will chop through the remains of the Laurestinus, (Viburnum tinus). It's a very popular plant for hedges and shrubberies, much used in Perth and the South West. It's is rather an old-fashioned type of plant. It handles our hot summers, dryish (not fully) conditions well. A little water over summer doe...s help keep it green. If you look under any large bush of this plant you will see lots of fallen, dryish leaf litter. It can form a large, spreading bush, and as such I would not recommend it growing near the house. On a hot day, with windy conditions it may be a problem if embers were blown into it. It could flare up and catch fire. In any case not recommended, at least for first 20m away from the house. It's become a maintenance issue for me so worth removing. (If you can, it's tough).

12.01.2022 As we in the South West of Western Australia begin to welcome the summer (and the bushfire season!) as the weather warms, here is, by contrast, a useful introduction to Top End weather; the plentiful lightning strikes, the numerous fires, many of which just run on. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/fire-management-kimberley

03.01.2022 Lightning strikes in summer, South West Western Australia, are a significant contributing factor to igniting dry grass or any dry vegetation. Many native shrubs, with oils in their leaves, ignite very easily and may smoulder for hours. A breeze may spring up, hours or even days later, and there is a full-on bushfire burning away. https://community.nfpa.org//california-s-current-wildfires

02.01.2022 Oh dear! Here is an article from several years back extolling the virtues of growing - especially Western Australian native plants - as hedges. Without recognition that these plants are highly (in the main) flammable. ... The ubiquitous bottlebrush (developed from Callistemon) is seen all over Perth and into the Hills suburbs. It's related to eucalypts and many other plants with oils in their foliage. It's in plague proportions. The philosophy seems to be, plonk in a bottlebrush now; this will do. And don't get me started on the problems of hay fever in spring! Crush the leaves, smell the oils. Do you really want that bottlebrush hedge leading up to your back door? The bottlebrush hedge and its ilk will contribute to the destruction of houses, and the threat to many residents in the perimeter of Perth and suburbs. We need to "get our eye in" and remove these risky plants that play a leading role in creating conditions that will contribute to the spread of bushfire, even in the metropolitan area. The Howitt Society Public Group