Semi Intensive Green Roof Plants

An intensive green roof is more like a conventional garden or park and can have virtually no limit to the plant types that can be used.

Semi intensive green roof plants.

Due to the differences in growing medium between an extensive and intensive green roof the latter can accommodate deeper plantings with more diversity. This system is able to retain more stormwater than an extensive system and provides the potential to host a richer ecology. The greengrid system is a proprietary technology of weston in the u s. Plants for intensive and semi intensive green roofs.

Semi intensive green roof a semi intensive green roof system is characterized by small herbaceous plants ground covers grasses and small shrubs requiring moderate maintenance and occasional irrigation. Because this is the semi intensive level of the roof a variety of grasses bulbs and annuals were planted in the growing media mounds. Semi intensive intensive plants greengrid is a registered trademark of weston solutions inc. Typical sizes include quarts 12 per flat 3 24 per flat 38s 38 per flat and 72s 72 per flat.

A typical growing medium depth for a semi intensive green roof is 6 to 12 inches. Grasses add texture and motion to the roof landscape and a habitat for birds and insects as they do in a traditional landscape. Plugs are small plants that have been grown in a nursery and are planted into the green roof media on the roof.