Sedum Green Roof Maintenance

Intensive green roofs feature a wide variety of vegetation including trees making them much heavier in weight and more maintenance intensive.

Sedum green roof maintenance.

The exact level of maintenance needed will depend on the type and desired purpose of each specific installation. The first year will require more maintenance than once established to ensure a long lasting roof. Contact usif your roof is in a similar state of sadness and you would like us to bring it back to life. Green roofs do require some maintenance to ensure that the original species selected establish and thrive.

How do you maintain a green roof garden. Making your roof more sustainable with sedum is in contrast to intensive green roofs a low maintenance and cost saving greening method. The before and after shows what a little feed and plug plant can do to bring a roof round to full health. Sedum is an extremely robust plant and with a little tlc from our maintenance team this is what can be achieved in 6 months.

Also a roof that is surrounded by a lot of other greenery therefore filling the air with seeds might need more work. By applying sedum mats instead of loose sedum plants installation is very simple and this saves you a huge amount of time. Monthly checks and two visits a year one in spring and one in autumn will help to keep the roof looking good. In order to keep an eye on things a regular inspection and maintenance regime of the sedum roof should be set up.

When sedum vegetation is applied to a green roof the weight is approximately 30 kg m2. Extensive green roof s are basically a light 2 tall cover of shallow rooted hardy alpine plants such as sedums which require minimal maintenance.