Green Roof Sedum Plants

A roof is a hostile environment compared to life on the ground.

Green roof sedum plants.

They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. 9 varieties of sedum perfectly blended to create the world s hardest wearing sedum blanket. Sky garden is the uk s leading independent supplier installer of green roofs sedum roofs eco roofs our green roof company has 20 years experience. A honeybee enjoys feeding from the flowers of sedum kamtschaticum.

Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. Green roof sedum have to be tough reliable and resilient to withstand the challenging conditions on a roof top. A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides. Finally it s time for the plants.

Sedum plant growth types. There is a wide variety of sedums. Planting a green roof. We supply pre grown sedum mats.

Green roofs can be created on even the tiniest of structures. Gold sedum sedum kamtschaticum. Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof. Whether it is a sedum blanket or sedum plug our plants are lovingly nurtured at our uk nursery before being lifted and transported to site within 24 hours.

Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants. Roughly speaking extensive green roofs have a substrate thickness of between 4 and 15 cm and a weight of 30 to 220 kilo per m2. The soft stuff doesn t do up here so we use only the hardy varieties. Sedum green roof only supply the best possible quality sedum mats blankets plug plants premium sedum s pod tray module and wild flower mats.

Sedums are drought tolerant and therefore only require watering in long spells of dry weather. An extensive green roof or sedum roof is a roof with vegetation that is more or less self perpetuating and that can further develop and maintain itself. A pre blended sedum turf roll containing an excellent range of proven sedum varieties with a coverage of no less than 85. The same varieties which are found as far north as sweden and as far south as spain.

We pride ourselves with our customer service and aftercare service. Ready to roll carpets of sedum are easiest but you should also be able to find plug trays of sedums and other plants sold specifically for green roofs which will work out cheaper. These varieties and species of sedum are grown extensively for use on green roofs mainly because of their hardiness and drought tolerance. Green roof plants should also be attractive and offer food and shelter for wildlife.

The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to.