Flowering Sedum Roof

Sedum green roof kit for pitched roofs.

Flowering sedum roof.

This bumblebee is feeding from sedum spurium. They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof. To 4 inches tall.

Why we love it. Sedum also often known as stonecrop is a genus of the crassulaceae family of succulent plants. Full sun or part shade and well drained soil. Now comes the growing medium which for a sedum roof should be at least 8cm 3in deep and for a roof of wildflowers herbs salad and strawberries at least 15cm 6in deep.

Therefore if you have a flat roof with a slope of 3 degrees or less please check out of flat roof kits. Plant sedum in early spring after the threat of frost has passed. It offers silvery foliage and yellow flowers in summer. A lovely flower that blooms from late summer into autumn.

Flowers are star shaped and yellow in color. With a mass of green succulent leaves the plant produces clusters of star shaped flowers in vivid pink and red throughout summer. For its fast growth and silvery foliage. Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants.

An all purpose soil less peat free potting mix is fine for growing herbs and other edibles but mix in plenty of perlite to both improve drainage and save on weight. This family consists of four to five hundred species and thousands of different varieties. Sedum greggii is a perennial succulent plant with cone shaped rosettes at the base of the flowering branches. Flowering stems are branched up to 6 inches 15 cm tall.

The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to 100 in one week. Sedum has a steady growth of about an inch a month. Thriving in well drained poor soil the two row stonecrop is a tough ground cover plant perfect for a sedum roof. A great ground cover this sedum grows fast to smother out weeds.

Leaves are alternate oblanceolate or elliptic rounded to obtuse up to 0 5 inch 1 3 cm long and up 0 2 inch 0 5 cm wide. A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides. 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 humifusum makes for a great ground cover and has beautiful bright yellow flowers brilliant autumn fire and autumn joy upright sedum sedum spectabile aka hylotelephium spectabile add bursts of bright pink and magenta to your garden.

If the deer didn t like to eat them sedum would be a perfect plant. The flower buds form early and remain attractive well into winter. Succulents are plants that store water in a part of the plant. The natural properties of sedum make this succulent plant extremely suitable for roof greening.

Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. More than just a fad or decorative novelty a living green roof provides insulation helps prevent flooding filters pollutants from the air absorbs noise and.