Training & Workshops

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Green Roof Plant of the week – Kidney Vetch

Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria) is a UK  native wildflower of chalk, grasslands, shingle banks, cliffs and Junes. It is very common on green roofs in Switzerland and can sometimes tend to dominate an extensive green roofs. However it’s profuse yellow flower heads are a real magnet for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.

Green roof plant of the week – Viper’s bugloss

If you want bees to home in your green roof, there are many flowers that will attract them. However the star plant and therefore the star attraction has to be Viper’s bugloss (Echium vulgaris).