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.
Sedum extensive green roof.
2 al40 edge trim frames and retains the xf301 system.
These are covered with low growing plants such as evergreen sedums.
A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides.
To start with take a look at the most simple family of green roofs.
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 vegetation blanket instantly providing at least 90 coverage on an extensive green roof.
Extensive green roof maintenance.
Extensive green roofs sedum roof systems.
From a distance an extensive sedum roof can be mistaken for a grass field.
Extensive green roofs are designed to be low maintenance lightweight systems with no general access.
Besides the visual impact of an extensive green roof they also provide a natural habitat for birds and insects.
1 xf301 sedum blanket system with integrated water retention and filter layer.
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.
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.