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.
Lindum biodiverse green roof.
Biodiverse roof 0 15 specifications.
Biodiverse roofs and brown roofs are two different things.
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.
Systems fall into five main types.
A brown roof is where the substrate surface is left to self vegetate from windblown and bird lime seed dispersal.
Extremes of weather resulting in unpredictable periods of excess rainfall drought heat and cold stress.
When construction is underway the ecosystem is disturbed.
Green roofs can contribute to breeam credits or help a development achieve planning permission.
Sacks or in bulk lindum s green roof substrate provides a high quality green roof growing medium with green provenance.
With a biodiverse roof you can contribute to preserving biodiversity in the urban environment.
Working closely with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat.
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.
A mixture of wildflowers herbs and flowering perennials specifically designed for green roofs and sustainably grown in the uk.
Extensive green roofs have a shallow profile and are often planted with sedum.
Green roofs address many key issues associated with climate change.
A mixture of wildflowers herbs and flowering perennials specifically designed for green roofs and sustainably grown in the uk.
Biodiverse roofs are where seed or plants are introduced into the substrate at the time of construction.
A common feature in europe there s an increasing number of green roofs in the united kingdom.
What are biodiverse green roofs.
Insects and birds on extensive green roofs a wide range of insects associated with dry grasslands will find their way to an extensive 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.
Green roofs are created when living plants are grown on a roof structure.
There is limitation in that terrestrial colonisers will struggle to make it to a green roof.
Installing biodiverse green roofs which are seeded with wildflowers is a much more productive approach.
Working with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat.
Bauder biodiverse roofs are the only roofs to be approved by buglife the invertebrate charity.
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.
Join sempergreen and do your part to counter bee and butterfly mortality opt for a green roof with a bees butterflies blanket.
