Green roofs are created when living plants are grown on a roof structure.
Lindum biodiverse green roof.
Attractive to pollinators it provides a biodiverse and colourful range of wildflowers herbs and flowering perennials that will flourish in the conditions created on many types of green roofs.
A mixture of wildflowers herbs and flowering perennials specifically designed for green roofs and sustainably grown in the uk.
Sacks or in bulk lindum s green roof substrate provides a high quality green roof growing medium with green provenance.
A common feature in europe there s an increasing number of green roofs in the united kingdom.
Systems fall into five main types.
Biodiverse roofs and brown roofs are two different things.
Installing biodiverse green roofs which are seeded with wildflowers is a much more productive approach.
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Extremes of weather resulting in unpredictable periods of excess rainfall drought heat and cold stress.
There is limitation in that terrestrial colonisers will struggle to make it to a green roof.
Green roofs address many key issues associated with climate change.
A brown roof is where the substrate surface is left to self vegetate from windblown and bird lime seed dispersal.
Wildflower blanket living roof systems offer an instant biodiverse living roof with a full range of uk provenance wildflowers ideal for attracting a full range of birds and insects.
Drainage layer lindum s drainage layer product roofdrain is ideal for extensive green roofs as it provides a lightweight drainage layer with a water reservoir to.
Peat free and derived from 100 uk sourced materials.
Working with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat.
When construction is underway the ecosystem is disturbed.
What are biodiverse green roofs.
Green roofs can contribute to breeam credits or help a development achieve planning permission.
Extensive green roofs have a shallow profile and are often planted with sedum.
Biodiverse roofs are where seed or plants are introduced into the substrate at the time of construction.
They require little maintenance can withstand wind frost and drought and are suitable for flat or shallow pitched roofs on commercial and industrial buildings.
With a biodiverse roof you can contribute to preserving biodiversity in the urban environment.
Bauder biodiverse roofs are the only roofs to be approved by buglife the invertebrate charity.
With additional aggregate stone and sand organic matter dead wood site harvested topsoil and dew ponds designed to form a matrix of different habitats ideally suited to insect life.
Sky garden s wildflower blanket substrate is a blend of recycled crushed brick and organic material allowing for a free draining low nutrient and moisture.
Biodiverse roof 0 15 specifications.
Working closely with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat.
