Lee joined Dan Lobb on Channel 5 show Cowboy Builders this week to talk about how green roofs can do so much more than simply keep the rain out. Most…
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For the past 15 years, as part of Basel’s biodiversity strategy, green roofs have been mandatory on all new and retrofit buildings with flat roofs and since becoming compulsory more…
Guest blogger and friend of Organic Roofs, John Adams, the transcriber and co editor of ‘The Syon Abbey Herbal, AD 1517′, talks about which plants may have been found on medeaval…
Organic Roofs met Sarah Carlisle from Stanmer Nurseries to find out a little more about the great work happening in the Biosphere. OR: Please tell us a bit about Stanmer…
So the flowers are out and the green roof maintenance season is in full swing. The grasses are lush and the roofs are blooming. But here at Organic Roofs our…
Lee and Simon spent a couple of days last week in Stuttgart and the surrounding area at the invitation of Optigreen, whose team showed us around the #greenroof capital of…
Thanks to everyone involved, including Hertalan UK and Wildflower Turf Ltd. It was a collective effort, especially as the original design needed significant adjustment to enable it to work. The…
Here is a short digest of the interesting things happening in the world of green roofing, both here in the UK and worldwide. Green infrastructure is a global movement, we…
Now the trees have finally lost their leaves and the smell of frost is in the air as winter sets in in earnest. Yet, you can still find some plants…
Organic Roofs Caught up with Nathalie Bauman, a swiss green roof researcher specialising in urban ecology. Her work includes research into the suitability of green roofs as nesting sites for…