Intensive Roof Garden

From a distance an extensive sedum roof can be mistaken for a grass field.

Intensive roof garden.

Intensive green roof garden roof roof garden an intensive green roof system is characterized by its variety of vegetation ranging from herbaceous plants to small trees with professionel maintenance and advanced green roof irrigation systems. Intensive designs usually consist of a mixture of hard and soft landscaping and incorporate plants that require regular maintenance such as watering fertilizing and mowing. An ideal rooflite soil for intensive green roofs rooftop gardens container gardens planters can be used in combination with rooflite intensive base and rooflite drain to provide deeper root space normally used at depth of 8 12 inches supports growth of ground covers perennials ornamental grasses shrubs trees. This 12 000 square foot green roof is located on howlett hall home to the osu department of horticulture crop science department of food science and technology and the chadwick arboretum learning.

Green roofs can help reduce energy costsfor a building by acting as another layer of insulation between the inside and outside of the roof. The intensive green roof uses planting mediums that have greater depth than the extensive green roof. These are covered with low growing plants such as evergreen sedums. Intensive green roofs and roof gardens bauder has experience in helping design accessible roofs and roof gardens to achieve the right layout and planting choices.

Replacing the impervious surface of a conventional roof with a vegetated can help to substantially reduce storm water run off and restore the balance with nature in our urban centers. This is most noticeable in intensive green roofs since there is a thicker and more consistent layer of soil which provides a higher insulating value. A typical growing medium depth of an intensive green roof is 6 inches or more. Another term for these green roofs is rooftop garden.

We make sure they remain successful landscapes for years to come. To start with take a look at the most simple family of green roofs. The variety of plants possible is numerous including sod grass lawns perennial and annual flowers shrubs and even small trees. In august and early september of 2013 the green roof on howlett hall was installed in the chadwick arboretum learning gardens the first retrofit green roof at the ohio state university.