[nggallery id=10] 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 [...]
[slideshow id=9] 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 [...]
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.
[nggallery id=4] 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 [...]
[slideshow id=3] 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 as part of [...]
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.
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