Roofs & Rambles

Last summer there were two hives on the green roof at Evershed’s. A third has been in place for a week or so and is awaiting some bees to take up residence.

Although most of the Spring Squills I saw were not blue but more a bluish white, there were a few blue ones ‘about’ to appear. These beautiful wildflowers graced the clifftops above where the Choughs were ‘playing’ to the West of Lizard Point.

John Little, my colleague and friend, sent me a couple of great images of Pasque flowers in bloom on one of his green roofs in Essex.

A collection of images of the Eden Green Roofs taken whilst filming at the Eden Project for the Rooftop Rainforest Sky1 TV programme,

A week after my last visit to the green roof at Evershed’s, this time not filming for the rooftop rainforest TV programme, but running a tour and a short workshop on green roofs. The afternoon was warm and sunny in contrast to the damp wet and cold of a week ago.

The green roof field station at Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, London was installed in 2004 as part of 3 year PhD study into green roofs and invertebrates. Since then we have been visiting the roof every year. In fact although the original study was for three years Dr. Kadas has continued to monitor the roof [...]