A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building.
Houses with gardens on the roof.
Green buildings with rooftop gardens promise a lot of benefits for city dwellers in the future.
Green rooftop garden designs may require additional support as a green roof weighs more than a traditional asphalt roofing.
Besides the decorative benefit roof plantings may provide food temperature control hydrological benefits architectural enhancement habitats or corridors for wildlife recreational opportunities and in large scale it may even have ecological benefits.
According to kara orr marketing coordinator for grhc multifamily residential properties such as apartments and condos made up about 22 percent of reported green roof projects in 2015 while single family home projects accounted for just 1 7 percent.
Houzz despite the added benefits listed above green roofs are having a hard time puncturing the single family home market.
The best projects featuring rooftop gardens including a steeply stepped roof in london covered in over 800 plants.
The practice of cultivating food on the rooftop of buildings is sometimes referred to.
A green roof garden with grass flowers and shrubs looks impressive.
A roof that has clay or concrete roofing material can be strong enough to support the weight of a container.