Native Plant Design using a Bloom Rose

Green Roof bloom rose for native plants

When we design a Green Roof with native plants one of our project objectives almost always includes ‘year round color interest”.  Hopeless naive I am when it comes to believing the solution to ADHD lies somewhere not so hidden in the color, texture and hues of Green Roof wildflowers. Of course there are many governmental [...]

Vertical Green, Dried Native Plant Fronds and A. carolinensis

Florida Green Roof, Extensive, Rooftop Permaculture Ever thought about helping save the planet’s wildlife from extinction? Installing a windowsill box, green roof or living wall can help. Many species are dependent on the amount of greenery growing up above the ground for survival. Species like the green Florida anole, Anolis carolinensis are being pushed towards [...]

Native plants on your green roof give reason for Urban Core wildlife to rejoice.

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There are many, many reasons to construct a green roof, including; Cleaning Stormwater Reducing Heat Island Effect Creating Sense of Place Providing Habitat for Urban Core Wildlife Preserving Biodiversity Sequestering Carbon Producing Oxygen, and more. There are many other, less expensive roofing technologies capable of; Cleaning Stormwater, and Reducing Heat Island Effect However, besides Green [...]

Just another Florida green roof afternoon

Harvested Green Roof Biomass is locked into the ground level landscape

Ruairi, my lanky teenage son with blue braces and I decide to plant flats of Allium canadense on one of my favorite living roofs tonight.  I set out promptly planting while Ruairi totes numerous trays up the winding spiral stairwell, both of us focusing on the unhealthy sub sandwich we are going to eat after [...]

Florida’s Coastal Dunes and Green Roof Design

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Florida’s coastal sand dunes provide a wonderful opportunity to study native plants who may be suited for green roofs in hot, dry and windy climates. We will be working with the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens on a spectacular native plant green roof soon, I need some fresh, new plant perspectives and know where to go [...]

Planting the green roof. What is a native plant, really?

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Many folk have an opinion as to what a native plant is. As a botanist and a lawyer by education, I typically use Aristotelian logic/reasoning to satisfy myself when answering a question.  My world view is centered around the classical world.  But I am trying to shake that up a bit. Get rid of the [...]

July Green Roof Native Notes

Green Roof Biodiversity, Hyla Cinerea

July is always killer in the Florida garden.  July is double killer on Florida Green Roofs.  So I was breaking into a sweat, not so much from the heat but from the humidity this morning on the Breaking Ground (BGC) Green Roof as we worked with nine next generation Green Roof youths, studying the importance [...]

Native Plants for Green Roofs, Weeds Wicked Weeds or Sedum?

Green Roof Native wildflowers, Gaillardia and Echinacea

The original topic for June’s post centered around a discussion of the definition of a native plant. The topic may have been visited and revisited until it can be thought of as old news, yet on a recent Caribbean island green roof project I was asked to look at using primarily native plants.  Natives were [...]

Time to start bringing depth back into local native biodiversity

MetroVerde Green Roof, Wildflowers, Breaking Ground Contracting

We are almost finished with the initial wave of plantings on the Jacksonville, Florida’s Breaking Ground Contracting Green Roof.  Our focus was multifold.  Working with the Breaking Ground team, Catherine Burkee, Mary Tappouni and others, we developed a Mission Statement for the Green Roof project. The Mission Statement for the Living Roof defines Breaking Ground [...]

Native Plants, Green Roofs and Biodiversity

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The moon is waxing and still low in the sky over Jacksonville, as Fox 30 news prepares to broadcast from the Breaking Ground Contracting Living Garden Roof this morning.  Traffic is starting to build on the adjacent I-10 and the air is thick with humidity, a sign we may finally see brief some rain after [...]

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