Message from discussion
Green Roofs Plants
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Received: by 10.150.201.17 with SMTP id y17mr594771ybf.2.1240286465295; Mon,
20 Apr 2009 21:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
X-IP: 220.239.146.211
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us)
AppleWebKit/528.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/528.16,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)
Message-ID: <30f3a474-9a27-4cf3-9ddd-02c382a49018@j18g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
Subject: Green Roofs Plants
From: Antonino Giglio <antonino.gig...@gmail.com>
To: Australian Plants Society Victoria Open Forum <australian-plants-society-victoria-open-forum@googlegroups.com>
Dear friends,
I wish to experiment with green roofs and I wish to know if you can
suggest me Victorian native plants like grasses, tussocks, prostrate,
groundcovers, alpines, succulents, small shrubs, etc. that would
easily grow in 5cm/10cm (max 15cm) of media and that could withstand
period of dryness.
Green roofs will maybe have a grey water irrigation system but my aim
is having self-sufficcient environments with minimum man intervention.
For this I thught to use a special soil media mixed with Biochar.
The uniqueness of a green roof is that plants will have to perform
under extreme temperature flactuations and be adapted to period of
intense heat and intense rain (like, I think, many alpines do). So
they need to be more resilient and have high regeneration
characteristics.
Thanks for your help!!!! :)
|
