In the current economic climate, and with ecology foremost in many people’s minds, green roofs are becoming a very popular choice. Green Sedum roofs are very low in maintenance, they save money by providing a natural form of both insulation and cooling, protect the environment and can look wonderful.
Sedum Plants
Sedum plants make excellent green roofing plants. Because they are succulent they have good drought resistance for the summer months as storing water in their leaves. They are small, ground spreading plants and so protect the roof membrane, and spread across the roofs easily.
The sedum plants for roofs are often supplied as mats, to be rolled onto a roof surface after waterproofing and draining layers have been supplied. Drainage mat is needed on flat roofs with less than 3 degrees of slope, to make sure the plants for living roofing systems never get waterlogged. A handy upside of this is that unwanted weeds will not be able survive on the small amounts of water that sedum roof plants thrive on.
