Laban rubble roof – flowering plants
by Dusty ~ July 17th, 2009. Filed under: Green Roof News.[nggallery id=12]
Original the Laban Dance Centre’s livingroof followed the original idea of the brown and rubble roof – self colonisation. However visits to Switzerland suggested that seeding the roofs would speed up the process. Most of the plants on the roof have been collected from around the local area. Anything attractive growing in bare concrete at ground level has been hravested for seeds and these have been scattered across the roof. However some interesting species have got there god knows how including the first two primroses this year, small scabious and even salsify. A colleague form ECL has done a couple of surveys one last year and one this year. There are over 80 species of flowering plants on the roof. Even a small bramble, which appeared about 4 years ago and hasn’t grown beyond a little sapling in all that time. A bonsai bramble!
Others include vipersbugloss hare’s foot clover, birds foot trefoil, st john’s wort, lucerne, ribbed melliot and at least three species of sedums.
