Semi Intensive Green Roof Plants

An intensive green roof is more like a conventional garden or park and can have virtually no limit to the plant types that can be used.

Semi intensive green roof plants.

This system is able to retain more stormwater than an extensive system and provides the potential to host a richer ecology. Typical sizes include quarts 12 per flat 3 24 per flat 38s 38 per flat and 72s 72 per flat. Semi intensive green roofs require a deeper soil layer but the payoff is in the types of plantings that can be used. Due to the differences in growing medium between an extensive and intensive green roof the latter can accommodate deeper plantings with more diversity.

Semi intensive green roof a semi intensive green roof system is characterized by small herbaceous plants ground covers grasses and small shrubs requiring moderate maintenance and occasional irrigation. Plants for intensive and semi intensive green roofs. Semi intensive intensive plants greengrid is a registered trademark of weston solutions inc. The greengrid system is a proprietary technology of weston in the u s.

They come in different sizes and a variety of species depending on where your project is located. In addition to the mosses grasses and sedum of extensive roofs semi intensive plantings include herbs flowering plants taller grasses and small shrubs. Plugs are small plants that have been grown in a nursery and are planted into the green roof media on the roof.