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What to expect from a green roof in kit form
Having your green roof delivered in kit form A living green roof consists of layers of materials that all work together seamlessly to protect your waterproofing, insulate your building and nurture the...
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Green roofs and summer irrigation
Summer watering for living roofs Does your green roof need to be irrigated this summer? Here are three things to consider……. 1; How deep is your substrate? Substrate is the name given to specially...
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Solving green roof problems
Green roof problems and how to solve them Green roofs are dynamic, living things and as such they can sometimes do unexpected things. Here are some common green roof problems and suggestions as to how...
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Sourcing sustainably grown green roofing
Sourcing sustainable green roof products A green roof is all about sustainability and that needs to be thought about at the design and specification stage. When looking for prices and thinking about...
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Garden Sheds With Green Credentials
Garden Sheds with Green Credentials Call it what you will – “man cave”, “she-shed”, ”summer house” “emporium” “garden room” - Everybody loves (and needs) a shed. But oh my goodness. When you’re...
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Specifying light weight green roofs
Specifying lightweight green roof systems There can be no denying that green roofing is becoming more commonplace and it’s a good way of increasing the environmental credentials of a building. For the...
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Summer Green Roof Maintenance
Summer green roof maintenance Spring 2016 was one of the coolest and wettest in my recent memory which is great news for plants, but may have provided challenges for green roof managers. 1: Difficult...
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An Interesting Landscaping Project for Enviromat
All Aboard! for Sedum Groundcover Enviromat sedum matting has been used to landscape a very different, and rather special, private garden in Chesham, Bucks. Andy Barr is the Head of Heritage Operations...
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Sedum species
An Illustrated Guide to 7 Favourite Sedum Species We’re blessed in the UK to have the sort of climate that supports a really diverse range of plants. Some of the most distinctive, have to be the...
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Sedum Matting - Is It Safe For Pets?
Sedum matting and pets When you share your garden with children and pets, you want to be absolutely sure that they won’t come to any harm out there. Enviromat sedum matting is perfectly safe for pets...
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Green Roof Growing Guide From Enviromat
Green Roof Growing Guide Harrowden Turf, the growers of Enviromat sedum matting have produced a downloadable Green Roof Growing Guide. The guide is completely free of charge and looks at designing and...
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Make A Timber Edging For Your Green Roof
How to make a timber edge for your green roof Unless you’re lucky enough to have a raised parapet around you green roof you will need to install some kind of edging. Here’s how to make green roof...
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New Product Brochure For Enviromat
New Product Brochure for Enviromat The product brochure for Enviromat sedum matting has had a facelift as part of Harrowden Turf’s rebranding enterprise. What’s in the new brochure? The new brochure is...
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Coping With Bird Damage on Your Green Roof
Coping With Bird Damage on a Green Roof A living green roof has a plethora of attractions for wildlife, but sometimes, just sometimes, that can be a bit of a disadvantage. Wildlife vs living roof -...
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Plant A Green Roof For Winter Colour
Plant a sedum roof for winter colour I struggle with winter colour in my garden. Yes, there are the evergreens – the ivy, conifers, holly etc that give form and structure. Then there are the dogwoods...
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Sedum Matting Technical Specifications For Architects
Technical Data for Sedum Green Roofs Not a very exciting blog post I'm afraid but if you're an architect, surveyor or planner these tables contain pretty much all the information you need for...
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Autumn Green Roof Maintenance
Autumn Green Roof Maintenance As September draws to a close, the leaves on the trees are just beginning to change colour and thoughts are turning towards putting the garden, the beehives and the green...
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Why Choose Succulents For Green Roofing
Why choose succulent plants for green roofing? What are succulent plants? The word "succulent" comes from the Latin word sucus, meaning juice, or sap. Which gives us a hint that these plants somehow...
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GRO: The Green Roof Code Of Practice
GRO: What is it and do you need it? GRO stands for The Green Roof Organisation. The Green Roof Organisation is an independent organisation for manufactures and installers of green roofs in the UK....
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Five advantages of green roofs
5 Advantages of green roofs When I sat down to write this blog I promised myself I’d stick to the science and only look at the tangible advantages of green roofs. However, you can find them out from...
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Japanese-Style Dry Garden Using Enviromat
A Japanese-style garden featuring Enviromat sedum matting Whilst searching through some old photos the other day I came across these. I remember being fascinated by the project at the time but I’m...
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Sedum Roof Buildup
Sedum Roof Buildup In this blogpost, we’re looking at sedum roof buildup and how it affects the sustainability of a green roof. What is it that makes a sedum green roof succeed or fail? Well,...
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Christmas and New Year Opening Times This year, everybody in the Enviromat production, harvesting and sales teams will be taking a short break over the Christmas and New Year Holiday. From all of us...
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Planning a Green Roof For 2017?
6 things you need to know if you're planning a green roof for 2017 1: A green roof is an asset to any building A living green roof brings a myriad of benefits - provided it is properly installed. It...
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Sedum Roof Costs
What Does A Sedum Roof Cost? A sedum roof is a wonderful thing – but what does it cost in time and money? And is it really worth it? How much time does it take to make a sedum roof? The time it takes...
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Preparing Your Sedum Roof for Spring
Essential jobs to get your sedum roof ready for spring Sedum green roofs are rarely green during the winter. The plants naturally take on a rather lovely reddish-brown hue. It’s the plants’ way of...
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What Makes Sedum Plants Drought Tolerant
What makes sedum plants drought tolerant? Have you noticed that in high summer, when the plants in your veg plots and herbaceous border are wilting, cacti, sedums and other succulent plants stay...
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It's Time To Feed Your Living Roof
Why Your Green Roof Needs a Spring Feed Spring is in the air. Hurrah! All over my garden the plants are waking up. Crocus and daffodil are in bloom, so are the primroses, the daisies and the...
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Small Green Roofs
Gardeners' Delight in Green Roofs This blog is simply a collection of pictures to celebrate the beauty of small green roofs. A rooftop restaurant for bees. This simple green roof flowers throughout...
View ArticleEnviromat Offer Green Roof CPD Courses At Your Premises
Green Roof Learning Wherever You Are As an architect or garden designer, have you ever looked at a living green roof and wondered “could I do something like that on my next project?” The team at...
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Green Roofs With Drought Stress
Green Roofs Suffering From Drought Stress I never thought that I would be writing this blogpost so early in the UK in April. British weather has always been reliable for providing plenty of free water...
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Green Roof Growing Medium – Substrate vs Soil
What is the correct growing medium for a green roof? Some of the most frequently asked questions I encounter when running CPD green roofing courses are about growing medium. So here are the basics on...
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Can you walk on sedum matting?
Will Sedums Be Damaged If Walked Upon? Enviromat sedum matting is superb as ground cover and is frequently used as an alternative lawn. It’s most common use however, is for sedum green roofing....
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Beautiful Green Roof Sedums - A Pictoral Guide
Spring and summer are when sedum green roofs are at their most beautiful and their most productive (in terms of providing pollen and nectar for insects) Here are some images of sedum plants that thrive...
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When Does Enviromat Flower?
When will my Enviromat bloom? Enviromat sedum matting has a lovely long flowering period. The different sedum species tend to bloom one after another which means that ground cover and green roofs can...
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Does Your Sedum Roof Need Irrigating?
Watering your sedum roof in summer The wonderful thing about a sedum roof is that it’s rather good at coping with dry weather. So far this year, I doubt that many (properly installed) sedum roofs are...
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Enviromat in silver award winning garden
It’s always great to meet people who like using Enviromat sedum matting as much as we like growing it. This year, at the Gardeners World Live show, we were proud to see that one of our favourite garden...
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Green Roof Report for 2017 Shows Healthy Growth in the Industry
2017 Green Roof Report - How is the industry faring? Green roofing is a relative newcomer to the UK. Other European countries have been researching and developing green roofs – well – since bronze age...
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Sedum Matting Vs Sedum Trays. Which is Best?
Sedum Trays Vs Sedum Matting. Which Do You Prefer? There are a whole host of benefits to a sedum green roof as I’m sure you already know. But how do you create a sedum roof and what does it cost? A...
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Green Roofing for Winter Insulation
Winter is coming. The jumpers are out of storage, the thicker duvet is on the bed and I’ve started knitting woolly hats for the family. Those are all ways of insulating ourselves against the cold....
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Sedum Roof Maintenance For Autumn
Autumn is upon us and it’s time to review your sedum roof maintenance. What worked well this year? What wasn’t so good? Did your roof perform the way you wanted it to? In this article we’ll look at...
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Front Garden Design Ideas Win Gold
This July, a front garden design featuring Enviromat sedum matting won the highest award at the Sandringham Flower Show in Norfolk. A rural gardening show with Royal connections The Sandringham show is...
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Support Pollinators By Building Green Roofs
Green Roofs for Bees Since becoming a beekeeper I’m acutely conscious of the number of opportunities to help our pollinators we, as a society miss. We’re super-keen to remove ivy from walls and trees –...
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Garden Project: Putting a Living Roof on Your Bin Store
Where do you store your wheelie bins? Mine are in an untidy row by the back door. That’s OK I suppose but they don’t make a very good impression for visitors and in summer the “perfume” can be a little...
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When to Install Enviromat Sedum Matting
What is the best time of year to install Enviromat sedum matting? In this article, we look at the pros and cons of each season. Installing Enviromat Sedum Matting in winter We Brits don’t seem to be...
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Enviromat can be laid at any time of year provided the weather is on your side. However, the boys and girls who grow Enviromat, drive the delivery lorries and look after our customers have all been...
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Your Green Roof Growing Guide
A living green roof is a wonderful thing. Amongst other things, it’s great for wildlife, lowers the carbon footprint of a building, preserves the waterproofing and looks amazing. It’s not difficult to...
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What to expect from your sedum roof in winter
A sedum roof is a living thing. And most living things in the UK adapt and change to the seasons. In this blog we’re looking at what you can expect from your sedum roof in winter. The benefits of a...
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5 reasons to grow plants on your roof
It seems like a strange thing to want to do doesn’t it? Growing plants on your roof. But our ancestors did it centuries ago and they didn’t have the time or the resources to do something for nothing....
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What is the public understanding of Green Roofs? Latest Poll Results
How does the nation view green roofing? I think it’s true of many industries that suppliers have a different view of their products and services to their potential customers. Take green roofing for...
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