How to make an extensive roof garden.
Green roof sedums.
Slopes greater than 30 degrees are generally unsuitable for green roofs.
Green roofs or sedum roofs are growing in popularity throughout the uk and globally partly due to the growing environmental concerns and focus on minimising the impact on the environment.
The lightest and simplest form of green roof can be purchased ready grown.
The same varieties which are found as far north as sweden and as far south as spain.
They were friendly professional and delivered a quality product.
Roughly speaking extensive green roofs have a substrate thickness of between 4 and 15 cm and a weight of 30 to 220 kilo per m2.
Green roof sedum have to be tough reliable and resilient to withstand the challenging conditions on a roof top.
It has been a pleasure to get to know and work with teresa and roxanne at roof top sedums on a green roof project at iowa state university.
9 varieties of sedum perfectly blended to create the world s hardest wearing sedum blanket.
Why use a sedum green roof.
As well as affording excellent ground cover this hardy easy to maintain plant grows happily in a shallow layer of substrate minimising the amount of pressure it puts on a structure.
A roof is a hostile environment compared to life on the ground.
There are about 400 species of sedums with a wonderful variety of colors shapes growth rates flowering season and evapotranspiration rates.
Green roof sedums sedum plants are thick leaved drought resistant plants of the family crassulaceae and are sometimes referred to as stonecrops.
Eco roofs green roof systems eco roofs is a grower and supplier of pre grown green roof trays pre vegetated sedum mats plants plugs cuttings and all of your other green roof supplies.
The soft stuff doesn t do up here so we use only the hardy varieties.
Here at roofing superstore we are proud to offer sedum roofs from both skygarden and wallbarn at our famously competitive prices.
Sedum species are grown on rolls of special geo textile matting.
Sedums are one of the star plants for creating a green roof and a sedum roof needs no extra growing medium.
Over five years later the roof still looks great.
These incredibly tough succulents are both drought and deluge resistant and their blooms are much loved by butterflies and bees.
A root barrier such as heavy duty polythene or a pond liner should be laid on top of the existing roof.
The simplest most affordable and lowest maintenance green roofs comprise a carpet of sedums.
