Living Roof Plants

It thrives in well draining soil and when planted on a roof can create a huge herb garden with excellent ground cover.

Living roof plants.

Sea thrift armeria maritima is. Edged by solar panels the roof s seven hills are lined with 50 000 porous biodegradable vegetation trays made from tree sap and coconut husks. Thyme particularly woolly thyme thymus pseudolanuginosus hardy in usda zones 5 through 8 is a flowering ground cover that can survive green roof conditions. Two row stonecrop sedum.

A honeybee enjoys feeding from the flowers of sedum kamtschaticum. The flowers are rich in pollen and butterflies adore the plants. Gold sedum sedum kamtschaticum. Another edible plant for a living roof oregano origanum vulgare is a mediterranean herb that requires little maintenance.

Miniature bronzed leaves and pink burrs of acaena microphylla. 10 great plants for a living roof succulents. Most grasses would fail on a living roof unless they were watered constantly in the summer. Try dry habitat perennials and ornamental grasses such as rudbeckia achillea potentilla armeria dianthus helictotrichon sempervirens stipa tenuissima and even bulbs such as muscari or small allium species such as allium flavum and a.

These are the mainstays of any green roof and should form the bulk of the planting unless provisions are. Meadow saxifrage saxifraga granulata. Plants for green roofs with a soil depth of 150mm. Sedums are one of the star plants for.

Offering many advantages over conventional tar and metal roofs the sedum plants grow in a four layer vegetated mat rather than in loose soil. White stonecrop sedum album. So seize the opportunity to elevate your planting to a whole new level with our pick of plants for a soil depth of 50mm. Plants for green roofs with a soil depth of 100mm.

Top ten green roof plants. An estimated 1 7 million plants fill the trays their roots interlocking to create an extraordinary oasis for birds insects people and other creatures.