Save to my scrapbook green roof on shed in the garden of valerie legg and simon harding bury st edmunds suffolk.
Green roof shrubs.
Perfect for a green roof because it adapts well to harsh conditions sea thrift is a grass like plant commonly found on the coast.
An intensive green roof is a deeper typically greater than six inches heavier system designed to sustain complex landscapes.
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Plants for extensive green roofs should have low growth height rapid growth spreading and fibrous roots that have high drought tolerance.
For intensive green roof.
Increasing the substrate depth and irrigation will also increase the range of plants that can be used successfully.
Shrubs to one metre in height are best used in substrate depths of 250 mm or more.
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It prefers sandy soil and dry conditions and the plants produce long stems of white or pink flowers throughout the summer.
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Carex pennsylvanica pennsylvania sedge 8 1 qt.
An extensive green roof is a thin usually less than six inches lightweight system that is typically predominantly planted with succulents drought tolerant ground covering plants and grass.
Sedum ternatum mossy stonecrop 8 1 qt.
The soil mix we like to use is 50 expanded shale 25 usda sand and 25 organic compost.
Green roofs can range from roof gardens with raised beds and pots to rolled out green carpets to shed roofs containing planting cells that are filled with soil or compost and planted up with low growing perennials and grasses.
These are the mainstays of any green roof and should form the bulk of the planting unless provisions are made for the roof to support soil deeper than the 3 to 4 inches that is typical.
Whether you transform a shed or a gazebo a log store or a bike shelter the top of many structures can be turned into a home for plants.
Semi intensive green roofs are a heavier system with a saturated weight of 30 to 50 pounds per square foot and a growing medium of 6 to 12 inches.
Small shrubs provide cover display and habitat values and often form the bulk of plantings used on green roofs with deep substrates.
And with good planning and the right plants your green roof will establish itself as a viable wildlife community that needs only occasional intervention from you.
We get most of our native plants from nature by design and typically the plants below would work well in partial or full shade.
