There was a fire next to our house in July nearly three years ago, around 3000-4000 m2 burnt down completely, it was an unbuilt area with some pine trees and a lot of
pournari. Fortunately, the fire brigade was here within 10-15 minutes with several fire engines and the fire was put out quickly. It was a frightening experience, but we were very lucky, it was stopped less than 50 m from our house. Today the pines are gone, but I am surprised to see how quickly the land has been almost complete covered with cistuses, mainly
Cistus monspeliensis and
C. salviifolius, several of them are already in bloom now, I didn’t know they were such pioneer plants. I suppose the roots were not completely destroyed by the heat, but there must have been a lot of seeds which benefitted from the fire, there are cistus seedlings everywhere.
From July 2012
_DSC4997Brann by
JorunT, on Flickr
Today, April 2015
P4210426 After the fire.jpg by
JorunT, on Flickr
