Roof With Plants

The best plants for a green or living roof must be.

Roof with plants.

10 great plants for a living roof succulents. This is the right time to enhance your roofs with solar plants. It is hardy in zones 4 8 and reaches just 10 inches tall. A honeybee enjoys feeding from the flowers of sedum kamtschaticum.

Protection of the roof membrane which increases the life of the roof. Although demand for rooftop solar has witnessed depression due. Sedums are one of the star plants for creating a green roof and a sedum roof needs no extra growing medium. Most grasses would fail on a living roof unless they were watered constantly in the summer.

Increased plant biodiversity that provides a habitat for insects and birds. These are the mainstays of any green roof and should form the bulk of the planting unless provisions are. The recent initiatives policy reforms and growing investment towards promising sectors like green energy testify the country s intent. Ornamental grasses hardy with few maintenance needs and year round structure to boot are a good fit for rooftop gardens and blue fescue festuca glauca can be used in containers in a border or as an edging plant.

India is a country focused on progress. Reduced roof temperatures helping to cool the building and reduce heating and cooling bills. Wind tolerant frost tolerant heat tolerant poor soil tolerant maintenance free.