Sedum Green Roof Plants

We offer a premium sedum s pod tray module or a standard mat system the premium s pod system has a greater variety of sedum.

Sedum green roof plants.

Ready to roll carpets of sedum are easiest but you should also be able to find plug trays of sedums and other plants sold specifically for green roofs which will work out cheaper. A honeybee enjoys feeding from the flowers of sedum kamtschaticum. The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to. Large yellow flower heads appear in midsummer.

These varieties and species of sedum are grown extensively for use on green roofs mainly because of their hardiness and drought tolerance. 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. Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants. 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.

Green roofs can be created on even the tiniest of structures. With all this in mind here are ten of the best green roof plants to choose from. Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof. Whether it is a sedum blanket or sedum plug our plants are lovingly nurtured at our uk nursery before being lifted and transported to site within 24 hours.

Planting a green roof. Vastly underused in the industry sedum aizoon euphorbioides is one of the more interesting plants suitable for extensive green roof. They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. Finally it s time for the plants.

Gold sedum sedum kamtschaticum. Sedum plant growth types. Green roof plants should also be attractive and offer food and shelter for wildlife. This cultivar is a striking specimen featuring strong upright red stems and green leaves that are serrated along the edges.

Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. Sedum green roof only supply the best possible quality sedum mats blankets plug plants premium sedum s pod tray module and wild flower mats. There is a wide variety of sedums.