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Taylors Garden Buildings :: Green roofs for Garden Buildings
   Green roofs for Garden Buildings

As an option for many of our garden buildings we offer a green roof system using Sedums, a stunning effect is created offering an environmentally friendly building.  When you install any garden building you will probably remove foliage, be it grass, borders or even weeds, you could replace the lost environment with a green roof on your garden building helping to maintain the balance.

We have introduced an unusual concept to our range of garden buildings.  Instead of tiles or felt we are offering as an option a green roof for your shed, log cabin, playhouse or summerhouse, in fact any building you require.

The system we are using is a landscaping matting with sedum plants grown within it, the buildings roof is strengthened where necessary to accept the covering

Tree house roof

Summerhouse with a green roof

This matting is a living carpet for outdoor use, it has the following features:

  • One of the lowest maintenance products available in the UK
  • Grown onto a special matting that gives strength and versatility
  • It comes with mature plants having been grown for 18 months, the sedum plants are already established in a life time of growing medium
  • It includes a mixture of of flowering sedums to give all year round colour and texture
  • Never needs mowing, weeding or deadheading
  • It attracts wildlife

Sedum plants

Crassulaceae family of sedum plants

The Sedumn is a group of succulent plants and are a member of the Crassulaceae family.

The word Sedum is taken from the Latin word Sedo which means to sit and refers to the way that the sedums seem to sit on rocks, ledges, walls and many other inhospitable places.

Sedums are very tolerant and although not drought proof they can survive and are in fact at home in poor soil and dry conditions.

The sedum green plants can help minimise the damage done to our environment, this system is used throughout the country and can be found on many green roof buildings.  The bring benefits to areas that otherwise may remain bare, especiallly when fitting our larger buildings, a large area can be taken from the original environment.

This roof system:

  • Attracts wildlife and provides a food source for butterflies, bees and many insects.  It is a safe place for creatures to live and to over winter in. Birds feed on the insects and the seed heads and any dead stalks are used by them for nesting.
  • It is relatively drought resistant and needs little watering.
  • Absorbs Carbon dioxide which, as is well known, reduce global warming and improves air quality by releasing oxygen

Design of roofing system

We either manufacture a building for you to accept this roof or we can modify if necessary any buildings from our extensive range, we can also if required retro fit this system to your own building.  The only limitation is the the sedums cannot be grown on an angle greater than 30° without an irrigation system.

Environmentally friendly roofing material

 

Bee hive using sedum

If you would like further details on this stunning roof system we would be very pleased to help.  You may also like to see our Web log

Pent shed

Dove cote using sedum matting






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