Sedum Extensive Green Roof

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.

Sedum extensive green roof.

1 xf301 sedum blanket system with integrated water retention and filter layer. 40mm high perforated edge drainage trim for bauder sedum blanket. 2 al40 edge trim frames and retains the xf301 system. Typically they have thin layers of substrate the growing medium to keep depth and weight to a minimum.

Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants. The shallower extensive varieties of green roofs are usually designed to have relatively simple maintenance requirements this is not to say that they can just be left however. Sedum vegetation blanket instantly providing at least 90 coverage on an extensive green roof. To start with take a look at the most simple family of green roofs.

Extensive green roofs are designed to be low maintenance lightweight systems with no general access. These are covered with low growing plants such as evergreen sedums. 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. Extensive green roofs may require watering on a regular basis as well as the elimination of undesirable flora such as weeds from the area of the roof and the gravel or shingle.

Extensive green roof maintenance. 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. Besides the visual impact of an extensive green roof they also provide a natural habitat for birds and insects.