Roof garden

By the way, except decorative function, landscaping of "tops" of houses has a number of useful properties.

It protects your home from temperature changes,dust, noise, harmful atmospheric emissions (this is especially important if your house is near a highway, factory or factory). In the summer heat, plants on the roof are not allowed to overheat your house, and in winter they keep heat inside the premises, and also prevent the formation of ice on the cornices. So with the help of a green roof you can save on energy costs - you can give up air conditioning and a heater.



Landscaping of the roofs is becoming more popular every day, but do not think that this is a novelty. As the saying goes, everything new is a well-forgotten old. The history of green roofing came to us from ancient Babylon, where the Hanging Gardens of the Semiramis served as a striking example of landscape design.



By the way, in the cities of some countries, the creation of gardens on the roofs is encouraged by the city authorities. For example, in Chicago, a landlord who decided to start a garden receives $ 5,000 from the municipal government.



How can you plant plants on the roof?

The technology of greening the roofs is quite simple: On the layer of waterproofing material is laid the grate, which is used to apply turf to the slopes. The lattice cells are filled with soil, after which separate plants are planted. You can also lay a layer of finished sod and fix it with wooden pins until the plants take root.



For gardening of roofs of houses, as a rule, use unpretentious, does not require strong moisture and nutrients plants. Well, if you decide to green the roof of the arbor,shed, or, for example, a dog booth - then you will have the opportunity to provide plants with watering and fertilizing, in which case the choice of plants will significantly expand. Those plants that give a good green cover, evaporate a lot of moisture, intensively cooling the roof, and create a favorable microclimate in the room. It is important to take into account the fact that when planting roofing structures of premises that are not heated in the cold season, plant roots are exposed to strong effects of low temperatures, so try to choose only winter-hardy species. It is also recommended to protect plants on the roof from cold northern winds.



What plants can I use? On the roof you can plant a mixture of lawn grass,saxifrage, cuff (subject to timely watering), various types of cleaning. By the way, cleanings are especially popular when landscaping the roof - they quickly expand, forming an interesting carpet in the texture and color. Purifier acrid and white are very unpretentious colors, they grow in almost any conditions, the main thing for them is sufficient sunlight. In the shade on the roof, clearing can escape freely, and also such a plant as young (a stone rose). Its leaves are covered with a special wax coating, which allows plants to retain moisture, so the young did not need additional watering. A wide range of colors, unpretentiousness to living conditions - all this allows you to use plants to create original, bright landscape compositions when planting roofs of any buildings.



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