Green Roof Shrubs

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.

Green roof shrubs.

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. Increasing the substrate depth and irrigation will also increase the range of plants that can be used successfully. 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. As the nation s leading supplier of plants for green roof systems since 1998 our accomplished horticulture team has more experience than any other nursery in the united states growing plants for successful green roof projects.

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. Small shrubs provide cover display and habitat values and often form the bulk of plantings used on green roofs with deep substrates. Shrubs to one metre in height are best used in substrate depths of 250 mm or more. It prefers sandy soil and dry conditions and the plants produce long stems of white or pink flowers throughout the summer.

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. The soil mix we like to use is 50 expanded shale 25 usda sand and 25 organic compost. Save to my scrapbook green roof on shed in the garden of valerie legg and simon harding bury st edmunds suffolk. Carex pennsylvanica pennsylvania sedge 8 1 qt.

An intensive green roof is a deeper typically greater than six inches heavier system designed to sustain complex landscapes. For intensive green roof. Founded the first green roof nursery in north america. We get most of our native plants from nature by design and typically the plants below would work well in partial or full shade.

Perfect for a green roof because it adapts well to harsh conditions sea thrift is a grass like plant commonly found on the coast. Sedum ternatum mossy stonecrop 8 1 qt. 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. Plants for extensive green roofs should have low growth height rapid growth spreading and fibrous roots that have high drought tolerance.

We are active in green roof plant research.