Green Roof Meadow

Meadowmat roof garden contains fewer grasses than a ground level wildflower meadow and so the annual hay cut associated with traditional management is more about neatness and managing the nutrient levels in the growing medium than it is about grass control and biodiversity.

Green roof meadow.

Our innovative haybase approach enables wildflower meadow roofs at comparable weight and cost to sedum. Green roof systems diadem 150 meadow extensive green roof an ecologically sound and economic green roof system that provides a meadow effect which requires only low maintenance. A range of specially selected biodiversity hotspots for bees butterflies and other invertebrates to improve the biodiversity contribution of whichever green roof you choose. Clover vetch a few late red.

Ask us about our habitat upgrade package. For green roofing applications use green roof substrate as your growing medium. Used over a whole roof a green roof will be the single overriding design influence on the house as well as impacting on the construction right down to the foundations. Charlie formed roofscapes now roofmeadow in 1997 to introduce green roof technology for urban stormwater management to the united states.

Lightweight extensive biodiverse green roof vegetation blanket providing instant greening of a roof with a mixture of 36 species of wildflowers. Charlie miller p e president and founder of roofscapes inc has been a very active member of this task force from the beginning. On the ground we recommend installing onto meadowmat low fertility soil. Roofmeadow green roof system design and installation.

Haybase lightweight meadow roof. A technical expert in the field he continues heading the firm leading our constant exploration of new and better green roofing designs and strategies. The maintenance regime for heritage meadowmat is simple and undemanding. He is the primary author of four of the five standards recently published and listed below.

The days are getting shorter and the nights are definitely cooler so you might be forgiven for believing that those last flowers in your wild flower meadow or on your green roof i e. A green roof is in ecological terms a great and simple thing to do. With over 10 years of excellence roofmeadow formerly roofscapes is the north american leader in green roofs.