Roof Top Sedums

These varieties and species of sedum are grown extensively for use on green roofs mainly because of their hardiness and drought tolerance.

Roof top sedums.

It has been a pleasure to get to know and work with teresa and roxanne at roof top sedums on a green roof project at iowa state university. Jennifer bousselot ph d. Projects are grown in the midwest for the midwest on the family farm in davenport ia. An extensive green roof or sedum roof is a roof with vegetation that is more or less self perpetuating and that can further develop and maintain itself.

563 676 9775 or 563 505 7032. Products rooftop sedums proven patented hybrid green roof systems are available in four depths to meets your design needs 2 5 to 8 inch depths. They were friendly professional and delivered a quality product. Roof top sedums is here serve liveroof clients in iowa missouri kansas nebraska and western southern illinois.

Over five years later the roof still looks great. Roof top sedums was established in 2007 and is a regional liveroof licensed grower servicing iowa western illinois nebraska kansas and missouri. Green roof sedum have to be tough reliable and resilient to withstand the challenging conditions on a roof top. Liveroof systems come in various depths.

Sedums used on green roofs can broadly be separated into four different classes. There is a wide variety of sedums. 20770 utica ridge rd. Designed to embrace the ease of a modular system with the benefits of soil to soil contact of the growing medium with the result of no grid lines.

Roof top sedums l l c. It is the exclusive regional liveroof livewall grower and representative for missouri central southern illinois kansas and nebraska. It has been a pleasure to get to know and work with teresa and roxanne at roof top sedums on a green roof project at iowa state university. Roughly speaking extensive green roofs have a substrate thickness of between 4 and 15 cm and a weight of 30 to 220 kilo per m2.

Ruderal creepers like sedum album acre and sexangulare these are fast to establish themselves on the roof. Visit roof top sedums website. Roof top sedums llc was founded in 2007. The business is 100 women owned and certified nationally as a women s business enterprise as well as an iowa targeted small business.

The creeper types have super fast growth rates sometimes expanding up to 100 in one week.