Rooftop Sedums

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Rooftop sedums.

Sedum is easy to maintain and requires little water and nutrients. A graceful and charming plant sedum sieboldii offers blue green leaves that are often tinted purple. They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots. Roof top sedums is here serve liveroof clients in iowa missouri kansas nebraska and western southern illinois.

The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to. This allows for sharing of nutrients and water. To 4 inches tall zones. 6 9 native to north america.

There is a wide variety of sedums. Proven patented hybrid green roof systems are available in four depths to meets your design needs 2 5 to 8 inch depths. Sedum is a lightweight method to create a green roof thanks to the modest substrate layer depth. Green roof sedum have to be tough reliable and resilient to withstand the challenging conditions on a roof top.

Sedum is very resilient to diseases and insects pests. Sign up for our newsletter. Sedum can withstand drought for example in very hot summers. Now comes the growing medium which for a sedum roof should be at least 8cm 3in deep and for a roof of wildflowers herbs salad and strawberries at least 15cm 6in deep.

Sedum sieboldii growing conditions. Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. Sedum has great adaptability under extreme weather conditions. These varieties and species of sedum are grown extensively for use on green roofs mainly because of their hardiness and drought tolerance.

Full sun and well drained soil size. Designed to embrace the ease of a modular system with the benefits of soil to soil contact of the growing medium with the result of no grid lines. An all purpose soil less peat free potting mix is fine for growing herbs and other edibles but mix in plenty of perlite to both improve drainage and save on weight. Get news and tips about roof top sedums.

They look great against the clusters of pink flowers that appear in autumn. For its evergreen foliage that turns pink in winter.