This ‘moon’ daisy is a great plant to sow or plant as a plug in a both small and large green roofs. It is a very common green roof plant on the European continent, when establishing dry grassland green roofs. At landscape level – it is often a short lived perennial of grasslands, disturbed soils [...]
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Not exactly a shed, but built in the same way as we recommend according to our guide, this great building in South Essex sits amongst the agricultural land. The green roof offers a wonderful ecological resource for bees and other bugs in one of the most important areas of the UK for rare invertebrates. Whilst [...] 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. A green roof and living roof course held in November 2009. Dusty Gedge and John Little talk and present talks during the course. The course was undertaken by Greenrooftraining on behalf of RESET. Spring is here and it is about a year ago that two small green roofs were installed in the Recycling Yard of the London Borough of Lewisham. Since then the roofs have developed and been planted with additional flowers. Last summer the living roofs were awash with annuals and the native herbs that were planted. [...] |
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