Flowering stems are branched up to 6 inches 15 cm tall.
Flowering sedum roof.
Our sedum green roof kits are designed for use on roofs with a slope of 3 20 degrees.
They crawl over the soil media layer and have very shallow roots.
If the deer didn t like to eat them sedum would be a perfect plant.
For its fast growth and silvery foliage.
The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to 100 in one week.
There is a wide variety of sedums.
To 4 inches tall.
Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes.
The flower buds form early and remain attractive well into winter.
This bumblebee is feeding from sedum spurium.
Plant sedum in early spring after the threat of frost has passed.
Why we love it.
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.
Thriving in well drained poor soil the two row stonecrop is a tough ground cover plant perfect for a sedum roof.
It offers silvery foliage and yellow flowers in summer.
A great ground cover this sedum grows fast to smother out weeds.
Full sun or part shade and well drained soil.
More than just a fad or decorative novelty a living green roof provides insulation helps prevent flooding filters pollutants from the air absorbs noise and.
Sedum green roof kit for pitched roofs.
With a mass of green succulent leaves the plant produces clusters of star shaped flowers in vivid pink and red throughout summer.
Sedum humifusum makes for a great ground cover and has beautiful bright yellow flowers brilliant autumn fire and autumn joy upright sedum sedum spectabile aka hylotelephium spectabile add bursts of bright pink and magenta to your garden.
This family consists of four to five hundred species and thousands of different varieties.
Succulents are plants that store water in a part of the plant.
Flowers are star shaped and yellow in color.
The natural properties of sedum make this succulent plant extremely suitable for roof greening.
Sky garden s sedum blanket is a pre grown mat of mature sedum plants.
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.
Therefore if you have a flat roof with a slope of 3 degrees or less please check out of flat roof kits.
Whether it is a sedum blanket or sedum plug our plants are lovingly nurtured at our uk nursery before being lifted and transported to site within 24 hours.
Native to north america.
Sedum greggii is a perennial succulent plant with cone shaped rosettes at the base of the flowering branches.
Leaves are alternate oblanceolate or elliptic rounded to obtuse up to 0 5 inch 1 3 cm long and up 0 2 inch 0 5 cm wide.
Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof.
Sedum has a steady growth of about an inch a month.
