Sedum Green Roof Shed

Grown in water retaining landscape matting sedums offer excellent roof cover.

Sedum green roof shed.

Absolutely gorgeous biting stonecrop a popular green roof sedum. 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. A variety of plants that grow well in a soil depth of five to seven inches are good to use including certain perennials ornamental grasses herbs shrubs and sedums. Green roofs dramatically increase beneficial insects and wildlife.

Succulent plants have unique ways of dealing with water and are well adapted to extensive green roof designs. Sedums are hardy plants found in the wild in inhospitable places such as the cracks between rocks cliff faces and in walls. Sedum can survive up to 100 days without water. Planning a green roof green roofs are made up of several layers typically a waterproof root barrier layer to protect the roof a drainage layer water retention mat then the growing medium and vegetation.

This green roof can be described as a combination of an extensive and intensive roof and therefore is also called a hybrid roof. When saturated these layers can weigh in at more than 100kg per square metre or 20lbs per square foot. 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. Benefits of a green roof.

Sedum for example can survive in temperatures from 25 40 degrees.