Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

The latest techniques for planting roofs and walls to enhance our buildings and benefit the environment. The green roof industry is booming and the technology changing fast as professionals respond to the unique challenges of each new planting. In this comprehensively updated, fully revised edition of their authoritative reference, Nigel Dunnett and Noël Kingsbury reveal the very latest techniques, materials, and plants, and showcase some spectacular new case studies for the non-professional. Green roofs and walls reduce pollution and runoff, help insulate and reduce the maintenance needs of buildings, contribute to biodiversity, and provide habitats for wildlife. In addition to all this, they are attractive to look at and enhance the quality of life of residents. In Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls, Revised and Updated Edition, the authors describe and illustrate the practical techniques required to design, implement, and maintain a green roof or wall to the highest standards. This informative, up-to-the-minute reference will encourage gardeners everywhere to consider the enormous benefits to be gained from planting on their roofs and walls.

• Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide
• Small Green Roofs: Low-Tech Options for Greener Living
• The Green Roof Manual: A Professional Guide to Design, Installation, and Maintenance
• Grow a Living Wall: Create Vertical Gardens with Purpose: Pollinators - Herbs and Veggies - Aromatherapy - Many More
• Gardening Vertically: 24 Ideas for Creating Your Own Green Walls
• Green Roof Construction and Maintenance (GreenSource Books) (McGraw-Hill's Greensource)
• The Professional Design Guide to Green Roofs
• Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative)
• Creating My Green Roof: A guide to planning, installing, and maintaining a beautiful, energy-saving green roof
• Green Roof Systems : A Guide to the Planning, Design and Construction of Building Over Structure