Sentences with word «sedum»

In addition, we offer 10 soil systems for a variety of green roof applications from extensive sedum roofs to urban rooftop farms and forests.

GreenScaped Buildings installed a built - up vegetated roofing assembly and planted with a combination of sedum tiles and plugs typical of extensive green roofs.

And it's made of exploded shale, so it's stone with sedum growing in it.

The roof will have low - growing sedum plants; the greenery continues down a side wall, which will have cubbies to hold plants, and onto a flat garden.

I selected pink roses for the main flower and green sedum for the base.

Crickets chirp and bees buzz from sedum flower to flower atop the post office in midtown Manhattan during a visit to the 9th Avenue facility on a perfect New York City fall day.

Here's how a green roof works: a layer of felt retains water for hardy plants like sedum or certain grasses, covered by about an inch of «soil» — really a man - made substrate composed of porous shales and clays.

Visitors tread on creeping thyme and yellow flowered sedum growing underfoot.

I selected pink roses for the main flower and green sedum for the base.

In addition, it will have one of the city's largest green roofs with 20 different varieties of drought - tolerant sedums growing in 700 planters totaling nearly 24,000 plants.

Essential oils that have been shown to especially help the liver include sedum, dill, rosemary, caraway, sage, geranium, German chamomile, and thyme.

I didn't know it was called sedum either — I had to read the tag... lol.

I thought the greenery was broccoli and since I don't know what sedum looks like I guess ignorance is bliss!

I thought the greenery was broccoli and since I don't know what sedum looks like I guess ignorance is bliss!

Faux lemon leaves and real sedum grasses are interspersed amongst the bundled straw twigs, with a lookalike robin's egg in the nest at its base.

Faux lemon leaves and real sedum grasses are interspersed amongst the bundled straw twigs, with a lookalike robin's egg in the nest at its base.

The InSite house will also feature an 18 - inch green roof on the north sloping side, which will be covered by sedum plants.

Optional sedum roofs support wildlife and reduce rain water run off.

Green roofs are heavy — even the simplest sedum based covering adds an extra 100 kg per square meter and the more intensive systems will be a tonne or more, plus the extra weight of retained rainwater.

Wilson's Anatomy of a Flower is a series of paintings on recycled photography glass that depicts sedum and Spanish moss, which she found to be especially alluring in the Conservatory during her time in the Winter Workspace in 2011.

In subtropical North Carolina, where he lives, sedums dry up in the sun unless watered frequently.

LiveRoof modules, when populated with a base mixture of flexible - stemmed hardy sedums (the backbone of the LiveRoof product line) were wind tested on 1/25/08 with wind speeds exceeding 110 MPH.

This 292,000 square foot rooftop has been transformed into an energy - saving green haven using sedum grown on a farm in Upstate New York.

Going with native plants means choosing unpredictability, because little of this work has been done before — especially in Chicago, where the usual sedums do just fine.

The plants range from all kinds of tall and short sedum, pink coneflowers, in full bloom, and many different grasses.

The garden is low - lying; composed of 65 species: mainly sedum, grasses waving in the wind, and perennials.

The 50 - year life - cycle cost analysis found that even the most inexpensive kind of green roof (with no public access and consisting of only sedum, or prairie grass) costs $ 7 per square foot more than black roofs over 50 years, while white roofs save $ 2 per square foot compared to black roofs.

Ten years later, people are pretty blasé about lightweight sedum green roofs; architects like Lisa Rapoport have to twist and tweak to excite.

Kevin described it in TreeHugger in 2004: «The 10.4 acre sedum roof insulates the building, provides a habitat for birds and insects, produces oxygen to offset the factory's carbon dioxide emissions, and purifies rainwater.

The 160 square foot green roof hosts native desert plants and sedums irrigated by greywater to absorb heat, dust, and CO2.

A fleece fabric layer comes next to retain water for the plantings, and finally a layer of Xero Terr growing medium for the pre-vegetated sedum and moss mats that are rolled out on top.

Fill borders with autumn flowering plants such as sedum and chrysanthemum which will provide colour later in the season

Also known as a «living roof», a green roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation, which is most often sedum.

Late - summer perennials fill the borders of this cottage garden with splashes of pretty colour — Striking lavander - blues, silvery sedum, pink Japanese anemones and tall Verbena bonariensis are all in the mix.

Other happenings in the garden include lots of mauve and pink colored blooms, including hydrangeas, a few kinds of sedum and foxglove.

Ford Motor Company gave him $ 2 billion in 1999, with which he transformed the company's ancient Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, into an icon of green design, complete with the largest living roof on the planet: a 10.4 - acre assembly - plant roof blanketed with sedum, a drought - resistant ground cover.

The hotel also has a Green Roof system with a large landscaped area consisting of drought tolerant sedum and ornamental grass with long curved arches to emulate the flight paths and movements of planes from the nearby airport.

The mantel - top box also built by the homeowners holds an array of low - growing sedum plants and clear - glass candleholders.

Essential oils that help detox the liver include sedum, and cranium, while dill, German chamomile, rosemary, thyme, goldenrod, and caraway are also helpful.

I didn't know it was called sedum either — I had to read the tag... lol.

The EEA's living map is made up of 5,000 plants from 20 different plant species, including purple verbena, dark green sedum and delicate sutera, all growing inside felt pockets attached to a custom - made support structure and watered by an automated system that drains to the bottom of the wall.

Ideas for your space could include raised timber vegetable beds and borders for perennials and herbs, with compost bins and storage sheds with «green» sedum roofs.

Such species as Sedum ternatum (white flowered sedum, a shade lover), Opuntia humifusa (prickly pear cactus), and Allium cernuum (nodding onion) are such plants.

These are succulent, water - holding plants like Sedums, Alliums, Sempervivums, Euphorbias, Delospermas, and other species.

I started with a bed of the sedum to rest the pumpkin on and then began tucking in my roses.

But the sedum was able to dry well, so I could keep it in the arrangement for a full week, whereas the cauliflower had to come out after a day.