With all this in mind here are ten of the best green roof plants to choose from.
Green roof sedum plants.
The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to.
Sedums are drought tolerant and therefore only require watering in long spells of dry weather.
There is a wide variety of sedums.
Sky garden is the uk s leading independent supplier installer of green roofs sedum roofs eco roofs our green roof company has 20 years experience.
A honeybee enjoys feeding from the flowers of sedum kamtschaticum.
A pre blended sedum turf roll containing an excellent range of proven sedum varieties with a coverage of no less than 85.
The same varieties which are found as far north as sweden and as far south as spain.
Our sedum carpet is lightweight low maintenance and offer an instant colourful green roof.
These varieties and species of sedum are grown extensively for use on green roofs mainly because of their hardiness and drought tolerance.
The soft stuff doesn t do up here so we use only the hardy varieties.
Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants.
They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots.
Whether it is a sedum blanket or sedum plug our plants are lovingly nurtured at our uk nursery before being lifted and transported to site within 24 hours.
Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof.
Sedum green roof only supply the best possible quality sedum mats blankets plug plants premium sedum s pod tray module and wild flower mats.
Gold sedum sedum kamtschaticum.
9 varieties of sedum perfectly blended to create the world s hardest wearing sedum blanket.
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.
We pride ourselves with our customer service and aftercare service.
We offer a premium sedum s pod tray module or a standard mat system the premium s pod system has a greater variety of sedum.
Ready to roll carpets of sedum are easiest but you should also be able to find plug trays of sedums and other plants sold specifically for green roofs which will work out cheaper.
Planting a green roof.
Finally it s time for the plants.
Sedum plant growth types.
We supply pre grown sedum mats.
A roof is a hostile environment compared to life on the ground.
A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides.
An extensive green roof or sedum roof is a roof with vegetation that is more or less self perpetuating and that can further develop and maintain itself.
Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes.
