lewisham wearside green roof July
by Dusty ~ July 16th, 2009. Filed under: Green Roof News.Visited the Wearside green roofs in Lewisham. Installed by thegrassroofcompany in march two roofs, one on the generator building and the other on two containers, are coming along a treat. Designed along the brown roof biodiverse roof principles that have varied substrates, supplied, Shire Green Roof Substrates and substrate depths according to research undertaken on invertebrate biodiversity and green roofs in London by Dr. Kadas[ see livingroofs for the pdf].
The area of toadflax being munched by the toadflax brocade caterpillars a couple of weeks is no more. I can only presume the caterpillars have moved on or turned into the next stage of their development. Lots of bees, wasps and hoover flies and all the plug plants including wild strawberry, thrift, birds foot trefoil, knapweed and maiden pink are healthy after all the rain and sunshine.
A great way of getting green roofs onto small roofs and this one will certainly figure in the book John Little and I are writing with Nigel Dunnet and Ed Snodgrass
February 23rd, 2011 at 5:49 pm
[...] together for a good few years. We have written our online guide to green roofs and designed a few small green roofs together. As we will be launching the book at Chelsea Flower Show this picture is of his garden at [...]