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The rooftop carrot farm in Essex is a bit of a mystery. How did the edible variety get there? We do seed the wild Daucus carota, on roofs but not certainly these. However amongst the lush carrot foliage there are a few gems that are attracting late pollinators to...
The French Guide is now live. We have finally managed to get our small scale green roof guide translated into French. Currently the French website is up and running. The public pages are all viewable. From the 24th October the membership side will be sold. Dusty will...
Urban food growing is happening on a small scale green roof in Montreal, Canada. This was another successful green roof built on a shed using our original e-guide. When we first launched the guide back in 2010 Oliver spent a couple of months emailing us about his...
Vienna is our destination in late November. John will be speaking at the First European Urban Green Infrastructure conference in the Austrian Capital. Dusty will also be there as he is one of the co-organisers. Small scale green roofs can play an important role in...
The Coast green roof sits perched above the bay at Sennen, Cornwall. The first and last green roof in England being only a couple of miles from Lands End. A Coast Green Roof needs Coastal wildflowers The roof is a true coast roof, which makes it perfect to celebrate...
Pollination Awareness Week starts today. What better way to promote pollinators than turning a shed, a garage or an extension in to a pollinator paradise. It is amazing the range of pollinators that can found on a small green roof. Even the one on my balcony,...
Balcony Green Roof 2 - Spiders, Solitary Bees and Annuals Spider on my Balcony green roof The spider on my Balcony green roof finally performed for the camera. I have been watching two of these 8 legged wonders wandering across the small roof. Fast, small and very...
The summer house green roof is doing fine. A quick visit to John Little's allowed to have a quick inspection. A mildly pampered summer house green roof The summer hose green roof is fours old now. It is the one green roof that John pampers. Only a little though. This...
My Balcony green roof was built back in 2002. It is the only place on my home I can actually have a green roof. The construction was undertaken for the unfortunately unpublished 'How to build a small green roof?' pdf. This preceded our original pdf guide and now the...
Social housing provides plenty of opportunities for small-scale green roofs. Our last post focussed on electricity stations. There are normally a few of these on most council estates across the UK. In fact the picture posted yesterday was from an estate in Southwark,...
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