Sedum Extensive Green Roof

A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides.

Sedum extensive green roof.

With their extensive knowledge and experience in the green roof industry we will continue etera s reputation for superior plant quality and customer service. Sedum mats have a base layer of polyester hessian or porous polythene depending on the supplier. Three types of extensive green roofs 1. Our sedum blanket is exclusively grown in magheramorne on the shores of the irish sea.

Extensive green roofs are designed to be low maintenance lightweight systems with no general access. Sedum vegetation blanket instantly providing at least 90 coverage on an extensive green roof. The hardiest plants are the easiest to maintain. To start with take a look at the most simple family of green roofs.

Typically they have thin layers of substrate the growing medium to keep depth and weight to a minimum. Besides the visual impact of an extensive green roof they also provide a natural habitat for birds and insects. Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants. Designed to replicate the benefits derived from open green spaces extensive living roofs are virtually self sustaining.

Sedums are the solution. From choosing the type of plants questions about specifications to installation and maintenance we are here to help. Grown in a shallow layer of lightweight low nutrient growing media. 40mm high perforated edge drainage trim for bauder sedum blanket.

With a plant palette consisting of hardy drought tolerant sedum species this is the green roof system with low cost simple installation lightweight and low maintenance requirements. Zinco offers two different versatile systems. These are covered with low growing plants such as evergreen sedums. 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.

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. Green building green infrastructure. Extensive green roofs sedum roof systems. 1 xf301 sedum blanket system with integrated water retention and filter layer.

2 al40 edge trim frames and retains the xf301 system. 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. 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 sedum mats sedum blanket green roof city of london.

Applicable to both new build and retrofitting. From a distance an extensive sedum roof can be mistaken for a grass field. A 20mm layer of growing medium is laid and sedum seeds or cuttings are spread across it.