Flowering Sedum Roof

If the deer didn t like to eat them sedum would be a perfect plant.

Flowering sedum roof.

Full sun or part shade and well drained soil. Sedum also often known as stonecrop is a genus of the crassulaceae family of succulent plants. Our sedum green roof kits are designed for use on roofs with a slope of 3 20 degrees. Flowering stems are branched up to 6 inches 15 cm tall.

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. Sedum has a steady growth of about an inch a month. This bumblebee is feeding from sedum spurium. 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.

With a mass of green succulent leaves the plant produces clusters of star shaped flowers in vivid pink and red throughout summer. 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. Thriving in well drained poor soil the two row stonecrop is a tough ground cover plant perfect for a sedum roof. The natural properties of sedum make this succulent plant extremely suitable for roof greening.

Native to north america. For its fast growth and silvery foliage. This family consists of four to five hundred species and thousands of different varieties. Flowers are star shaped and yellow in color.

A great ground cover this sedum grows fast to smother out weeds. Therefore if you have a flat roof with a slope of 3 degrees or less please check out of flat roof kits. A lovely flower that blooms from late summer into autumn. Sedum green roof kit for pitched roofs.

Succulents are plants that store water in a part of the plant. To 4 inches tall. 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. It offers silvery foliage and yellow flowers in summer.

They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. There is a wide variety of sedums. Plant sedum in early spring after the threat of frost has passed. 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.

The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to 100 in one week. Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. Sedum greggii is a perennial succulent plant with cone shaped rosettes at the base of the flowering branches. A sedum roof is by far the most popular choice for an extensive green roof system that sky garden provides.

The flower buds form early and remain attractive well into winter. Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants.