Extremes of weather resulting in unpredictable periods of excess rainfall drought heat and cold stress.
Lindum biodiverse green roof.
Bauder biodiverse roofs are the only roofs to be approved by buglife the invertebrate charity.
Installing biodiverse green roofs which are seeded with wildflowers is a much more productive approach.
There is limitation in that terrestrial colonisers will struggle to make it to a 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.
Biodiverse roofs and brown roofs are two different things.
A mixture of wildflowers herbs and flowering perennials specifically designed for green roofs and sustainably grown in the uk.
Sacks or in bulk lindum s green roof substrate provides a high quality green roof growing medium with green provenance.
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.
With a biodiverse roof you can contribute to preserving biodiversity in the urban environment.
They require little maintenance can withstand wind frost and drought and are suitable for flat or shallow pitched roofs on commercial and industrial buildings.
Working closely with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat.
Biodiverse roof 0 15 specifications.
Extensive green roofs have a shallow profile and are often planted with sedum.
Peat free and derived from 100 uk sourced materials.
Join sempergreen and do your part to counter bee and butterfly mortality opt for a green roof with a bees butterflies blanket.
Working with the university of sheffield s professor nigel dunnett and the green roof centre lindum has developed the wildflower mat.
A common feature in europe there s an increasing number of green roofs in the united kingdom.
With additional aggregate stone and sand organic matter dead wood site harvested topsoil and dew ponds designed to form a matrix of different habitats ideally suited to insect life.
Biodiverse roofs are where seed or plants are introduced into the substrate at the time of construction.
Green roofs are created when living plants are grown on a roof structure.
What are biodiverse green roofs.
Green roofs can contribute to breeam credits or help a development achieve planning permission.
When construction is underway the ecosystem is disturbed.
A brown roof is where the substrate surface is left to self vegetate from windblown and bird lime seed dispersal.
Systems fall into five main types.
Green roofs address many key issues associated with climate change.
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.
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.
