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Windy roof garden destroying everything

Hello, I live in a flat in London and together with some neighbours we look after the roof garden. It's a big patio 8 floor up with some raised beds and lots of pots surounded by a low wall and some higher fencing at various points with ivy growing by Simon Hearn

09/04/2013 13:52:38

by hypercharleyfarley

Hot roof garden = dry pots!

Hello Last year I moved to a house with a sunny but often windy roof terrace and I set about trying to make it more green and less concrete. Successes were sweet peas, tomatoes, two Clematis (that climbed up the chimney stack) and annual trailing by Jessica CB

26/04/2013 01:07:32

by Welshonion

Talkback: Building a green roof

're getting a new shed for our community garden, & we're putting a green roof on it. by clematis

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28/11/2011 18:44:27

by gracerob

gazebo roof

photos of the gazebo so that I could perhaps try and work out what weight of material that the roof could safely carry. Hi Eddy, i will take a picture today its lovely and sunny this morning so will trek down the garden, thankyou. by julie chapman

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07/06/2012 07:18:30

by Andrew Mcleod

sedum roof for a small shed

mat so the sedum doesn't dry out, or rather a drainage mat so the sedum doesn't get waterlogged? It is quite an enclosed garden and the roof will get plenty of sun (when it finally decides to emerge, this Summer!) No idea, as never had a living roof by freshairfanatic

09/07/2012 18:58:44

by freshairfanatic

HOSEPIPE BAN

gets around 100,000 litres of rainwater on the roof every year, enough to flush the toilets, wash the clothes, water the garden and save half the mains water bill. A report for the Environment Agency four years ago claiming that using the water off your by Richard Laker

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15/03/2012 10:49:53

by RWH

3 x 2 sheds

) In the future I'm looking at maybe adding a green roof to it That is tiny -more of a tool store B and Q do this http://www.diy.com/nav/garden/garden-buildings/sheds-garden-storage-workshops/garden_storage/-specificproducttype-storage_boxes/Blooma-Brown-Plastic-Tall-Two-Shelf-Garden by RubyLeaf

29/01/2013 23:05:48

by RubyLeaf

Talkback: Surviving the Chelsea Flower Show

to makethe RHS Chelsea flower show what it is. Good to see he was awarded OBE. Now I have a real problem, I am trying to make a roof top garden. I live in Tenerife on the South East coast so when it heats up I get the trade winds, sometimes very severe, also by Kath

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17/06/2012 20:30:22

by obelixx

Talkback: Gardening to reduce your carbon footprint

roof is covered with Clematis montana and all vertical surfaces have climbers up them Gardening vertically as well as horizontally is a great idea. What a wonderfully silly idea, Kate. i don't think it would work on my 2CV. perhaps a hanging basket by andy

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28/11/2011 18:40:17

by Cat

Eradicating ivy

My garden has been overtaken by ivy, and it's now creeping it's way over all the brickwork of house and garage. We've tried every year to get rid of it, but it comes back all the more determined to take over! Any ideas? Hi Abbie, try Roundup by Abbie2

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04/04/2012 14:30:15

by alice42

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