Sedum Acre Green Roof

Choosing the right sedum for your green roofs.

Sedum acre green roof.

With 50 years of horticulture growing experience eco roofs is uniquely positioned to be your source for green roof knowledge and experience as well as growing and providing the green. The best time to design and install a sedum roof is in the autumn. Fully vegetated and adaptable to most roofing systems. The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to 100 in one week.

On a sedum roof the majority of the plants are low growing succulents from the sedum or stonecrop family. Sedum dragon s blood sedum superbum. 9 varieties of sedum perfectly blended to create the world s hardest wearing sedum blanket. Used on green roofs and in the landscape on grade.

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. There is a wide variety of sedums. It s lightweight and very versatile. 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.

The benefit of sedums is that they can take a shallower soil level than many other plants and the most popular ones for green roofs are the hardiest including. Our 1 x2 sedum mat is an excellent choice for applications big and small. Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof. The soft stuff doesn t do up here so we use only the hardy varieties.

Eco roofs is a grower and supplier of pre grown green roof trays pre vegetated sedum mats plants plugs cuttings and all of your other green roof supplies. A sedum roof is one type of living green roof. It gives a chance for your green roof to settle and it will be more than ready to burst into life in the following spring. 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.

A roof is a hostile environment compared to life on the ground. 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. They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. The same varieties which are found as far north as sweden and as far south as spain.