Wildflowers Green Roof

Each wildflower blanket is sown with a seed mix of 38 species of wildflower and grass to create a vibrant array of colour on your roof.

Wildflowers green roof. The blanket is typically installed on 100mm of bauder s biodiverse substrate and meets the growing demand for native species vegetation to satisfy the requirements of breeam or a biodiversity strategy. This is a detailed case study that looks at the practical requirements for a green roof. The planting can be offered as turf plug or seed. Not all wild flowers are suitable for green roofing.

A mixture of wildflowers herbs and flowering perennials specifically designed for green roofs and sustainably grown in the uk. A little wildflower green roof if you are wondering whether installing a small wildflower meadow will make a difference to the local wildlife in your area then the answer is most definitely yes it will. Which wildflowers are suitable for green roofing. Semi intensive roofs are not designed to be heavily trafficked and can be installed on flat to shallow pitched roofs.

Wildflower or meadow type roofs can support a wider range of plants. It s super for use on a bike store and makes a great educational resource in schools and colleges. Grasses wildflowers and herbs due to the greater depth of substrate. The wildflowers and meadow grasses will burst into colour in the spring and summer and die back in autumn and winter however unlike a brown wildflower roof the sedum s will continue to grow all year keeping the roof green and visually attractive.

Working with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat. Meadowmat roof garden can be used in the garden to create a beautiful and relaxing wildflower area or it can be used on a roof with a pitch between 1 and 3 degrees. In the webinar i looked at a series of case studies and concentrated on a wild flower green roof we have on site that covers a stable block. Lightweight extensive biodiverse green roof vegetation blanket providing instant greening of a roof with a mixture of 36 species of wildflowers.

The grufekit has a saturated weight of 75kg per m2. At 12 years old the stable roof is the oldest green roofs using wildflower turf. Sky garden s wildflower systems are arguably the most beautiful green roof system when fully established.