The green roofs on the WWF HQ in Paris are mainly extensive. However there is a small food growing, urban farm on one of the roofs. A large herb plants attracted bumblebees and Honey bees.
The kingfisher perches on the edge of the green roof looking slightly bedraggled and a Pileated Woodpecker feeds her chick in the corner of a green roof in Portland, Oregon, in the US . Two species of birds I, as both a birdwatcher and green roof -er, would never have expected to see on a [...]
I have my Horse chestnut and Lime that I am observing outside my house for the treeyear project. However now when I travel I do keep an eye out for trees that are of interest. My visit to Camargue allowed me to visit my first treeyear tree that someone else is following.
My third visit to the Laban Dance Centre rubble green roof this year showed the effects of the recent lack of rain. The roof doesn’t look like it should in April but more like late June early July.
No further I had placed the log on the window sill of the Kitchen than a Red Mason Bee began exploring the holes I had made in it. Things bode well for when the log is on the green roof, I thought to myself.
Aside from the Choughs and Jackdaws at the Lizard, Cornwall the cliffs were blossoming with clifftop plants when I visited last weekend. And many of these plants are suited to green roofs due to the exposed conditions on the cliffs.
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