Roofs & Rambles

Visited the laban dance centre last night to take some pictures. the original rubble roof, brown roof designed for black redstarts was installed way  back in 2000 on a Sika Trocal membrane. It started off just being a pile of old rubble form the building site and has slowly developed into a miny dry flower [...]

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 [...]

My favourite roof at the moment…combines food, nature and amenity all in one space. I visited at end of may at EFB meeting. It was grand talking to people about the pond at roof level, the small allotments and the Mediterranean garden – a perfect green roof for biodiversity.

I also noticed a couple of grasshoppers. two different species seem to have taken up residence and god knows where they came from as I have never seen grasshoppers anywhere on the estate other than on top of the green roof at Barclays Tower 160m up in the air.

Last year and the year before we [...]

A visit last week to the Westferry meadow green roof in  Canary Wharf. i hadn’t visited for a year and Dr. Kadas had told me a few weeks ago that  it was really coming into its own. We had built this way back in 2004 as the first field station [...]

Ed Snodgrass of greenroofplants joined us on Saturday to plant the roof. He had kindly donated the plants – a mix of sedums and native North American flowers. All the materials were donate were donated by and the growing medium/substrate by Conservation Technology in Baltimore.