Building the living roof

We spent an afternoon last week putting this living roof on top of the back block, second story flat roof. Like typical desk-based workers, we found the whole thing a lot of fun; though lugging almost 2 tonnes of earth up 2 floors without a proper pulley was also a lot of hard work. Most team members are still sporting some physical ailment or other.

Hopefully, come mid-summer, the roof will look like a wildflower meadow. One week on, the grass has already started to thicken and this new little ecosystem is attracting plenty of interest from the local birdlife. We’ll have to import some worms from the garden to keep our blackbirds happy.

The kit was bought from http://www.sedumsupply.co.uk/, who provided excellent service and were generally very helpful.