Wednesday 28 March 2018

another spontaneous roof garden

If only it were possible to grow ferns as well as this on purpose:

Roof fern garden

At the moment I'm looking into how many flat roofs there are locally and what they might look like with plants on them (digital collages are pending) but sights like this one in Central Oxford are a good reminder that any pitch of roof can be green; you simply have to adjust the support structures and planting.

How steep is this pitch? Here's the context shot:

Roof fern garden

That little trough around the inset window has just worked wonders.

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