Green Roof Training

Black Horehound (Ballota nigra) – Green Roof Plant

DustyG — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:26:37 +0000

Black Horehound (Ballota nigra) is a great plant for wildlife on green roofs. It is a perennial, with heart-shaped, bright green, toothed leaves that turn black once the plant has flowered. The stems go a purple/black as well. But it is the mauve/pink flowers that make it a star plant for bees, butterflies and other [...]

Flax (Linaceae) – green roof plants

DustyG — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:27:52 +0000

Flax (Linaceae) can be found on green roofs throughout the northern temperate world.

I have seen them on roofs in Canada and in the US, including Narrow-leaved (Linum bienne) and Western Blue (Linum perrene), which is the best species to plant in the UK. They grow readily on green roofs in the UK and across Europe. [...]

Essex Green Roof Workshop 23rd July 2011

DustyG — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:41:03 +0000

The celebrated annual green roof training event in Essex will take place this year on 23rd July.

The course is for anyone interested in contracting, installing and building green roofs. Although the focus will be on the small scale – sheds, extensions, outhouses, outdoor classrooms etc, it will also provide enough practical and in depth knowledge [...]

Green roof plant of the week – Bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus)

DustyG — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:42:27 +0000

A bright yellow plant of dry pastures, grassy slopes and well-drained calcareous soils the Bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus) is well suited to extensive green roofs of a reasonable depth -greater than 100mm).

The bulbous root can survive the long dry periods that green roofs can be exposed to and also give’s it’s old and alternative name [...]

The First and Last Green Roof England

DustyG — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:14:54 +0000

The green roof installed in Sennen Cove, near Land’s End Cornwall has past through it’s first winter. Considering the weather in Cornwall this winter the roof is doing really well. It is probably the first and the last green roof in England as the pub up in Sennen itself is called this.

The Thrift (Armeria maritima) [...]

10/11 Dec. Ecosystem Services and Green roof Course – Oxford

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:51:30 +0000

Two Day Course on Ecosystem Services and Living roofs – Oxford Brookes

A two day intensive course including both theory and practical elements.

The course will set out the need and philosophy of the Ecosystem services approach to the Urban Environmemt. The approach builds and elaborates on the notion of Green Infrastrucutre as a solution to many [...]

Eco-shed of the Month – Norris Bank School, Stockport

admin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:45:33 +0000

This small eco-shed is in a school in Stockport. The inspiration for the roof was Jane Sebire, a photographer who takes pictures for various gardening and landscape magazines. Her son goes to the school in question.A lovely project and we defer to Jane’s description of the shed and it’s impact, not ours.

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Green Roof Plant of the Week – Wild Thyme

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:43:40 +0000

Wild thyme is a native perennial that forms a scented cushion or mat of pink flowers. It can be found in a variety of dry grassland habitats from in chalk to heaths to cliffs to dunes. This makes it ideally suited to green roofs, so much so that there is a potential for this plant [...]

Green roof plant of the week – Chicory

admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:29:29 +0000

Chicory is real beauty – as a plant of dry and infertile soils, it can be found on wastelands, dunes, roadsides and dry meadows. These qualities make it ideal for using on a green roofs.

Chicory

The irridescent blue flowers are attractive to a wide range of wildlife, especially bees, butterflies and moths. Some generalist [...]

23rd October – Small scale Green roof training Course – Essex

DustyG — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:19:09 +0000

On 23rd October we will be running a green roof training course at the Wat Tyler Centre, Pitsea, Essex.

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The Wat Tyler Centre has a green roof designed for biodiversity. This was designed by Dusty Gedge, John Little and Dr. G. Kadas, and is therefore an ideal location for a small scale [...]