Shed Green Roof Plants

How to plant a green roof on your shed planning a green roof.

Shed green roof plants.

The semper vivum needed a drier environment to reproduce and thrive. Meadow saxifrage saxifraga granulata erupts in snow white blooms between april and june and the kidney shaped leaves offer a stunning display for a green roof the plants grow up to 50 cm tall offering volume to your home. Green roofs are made up of several layers typically a waterproof root barrier layer to protect. Planting a green.

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. A shallow roof pitch wont allow water to drain away. The low growing sedum plants are the best for creating a low maintenance green roof. My experiment with larger plants showed that they quickly grew big and may have to be removed.

The slope of a green shed roof needs to be a balance between being too steep or too shallow. This roof was towards the shallow end of the spectrum and could perhaps have been a bit steeper. Green roof on shed in the garden of valerie legg and simon harding bury st edmunds suffolk. Green roofs 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.

Whereas too steep means that the growing medium slides down the roof. The rockery type plant needed a deeper soil to allow additional root growth and water. Green roofs of creeping plants and herbs need some sort of frame around the perimeter to hold.