Sedum Green Roof Plants

With all this in mind here are ten of the best green roof plants to choose from.

Sedum green roof plants.

The hardiest plants are the easiest to maintain. We pride ourselves with our customer service and aftercare service. A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides. Our sedum blanket is exclusively grown in magheramorne on the shores of the irish sea.

Green roof plants should also be attractive and offer food and shelter for wildlife. There is a wide variety of sedums. Weather beaten from day one it s grown to endure the harshest weather conditions in the uk ensuring an extra tough easy care sedum blanket system that s virtually maintenance free. Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants.

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. Sedum plant growth types. Vastly underused in the industry sedum aizoon euphorbioides is one of the more interesting plants suitable for extensive green roof. 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.

Large yellow flower heads appear in midsummer. They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. 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. Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof.

We offer a premium sedum s pod tray module or a standard mat system the premium s pod system has a greater variety of sedum. Sedum green roof only supply the best possible quality sedum mats blankets plug plants premium sedum s pod tray module and wild flower mats. A honeybee enjoys feeding from the flowers of sedum kamtschaticum. Planting a green roof.

Green roofs can be created on even the tiniest of structures. 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. Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. Gold sedum sedum kamtschaticum.