Semi Intensive Green Roof Plants

They come in different sizes and a variety of species depending on where your project is located.

Semi intensive green roof plants.

This system is able to retain more stormwater than an extensive system and provides the potential to host a richer ecology. Grasses add texture and motion to the roof landscape and a habitat for birds and insects as they do in a traditional landscape. Typical sizes include quarts 12 per flat 3 24 per flat 38s 38 per flat and 72s 72 per flat. In addition to the mosses grasses and sedum of extensive roofs semi intensive plantings include herbs flowering plants taller grasses and small shrubs.

Plugs are small plants that have been grown in a nursery and are planted into the green roof media on the roof. Semi intensive green roof a semi intensive green roof system is characterized by small herbaceous plants ground covers grasses and small shrubs requiring moderate maintenance and occasional irrigation. Because this is the semi intensive level of the roof a variety of grasses bulbs and annuals were planted in the growing media mounds. Semi intensive intensive plants greengrid is a registered trademark of weston solutions inc.

A typical growing medium depth for a semi intensive green roof is 6 to 12 inches. Semi intensive green roofs require a deeper soil layer but the payoff is in the types of plantings that can be used. An intensive green roof is more like a conventional garden or park and can have virtually no limit to the plant types that can be used.