Saint Paul Fire Station Green Roof Interpretive Center Green Roof Interpretive Center and Garden Classroom Photo of Green Roof Courtesy Minnesota Green Roof Council Loren Abraham, AIA, LEED AP abraham + associates architecture and planning From various Presentations to the City of St. Paul St. Paul Fire Station Green Roof Garden Classroom Photo of Green Roof - Courtesy Minnesota Green Roof Council
This presentation provides details of the planting design and materials of the St. Paul Fire Station Green Roof Interpretive Center and Garden Classroom completed in 2010. This green roof was a hybrid extensive/intensive Green Roof with over 100 native plant species in 11 plant pallettes. The green roof was designed by Abraham + Associates Architecture and Planning. The green roof contractor for the project was Tecta, Inc. Angie Durhman was the project manager for the installation
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Saint Paul Fire StationGreen Roof Interpretive Center Green Roof Interpretive Center
and Garden Classroom
Photo of Green Roof Courtesy Minnesota Green Roof Council
Loren Abraham, AIA, LEED APabraham + associates architecture and planning
From various Presentations to the City of St. PaulSt. Paul Fire Station Green Roof Garden Classroom
Photo of Green Roof - Courtesy Minnesota Green Roof Council
Green Roof Interpretive Center and G d Cl Garden Classroom
Loren Abraham, AIA, LEED APabraham + associates architecture and planning
Taken from various Presentations to the City of St. PaulSt. Paul Fire Station Green Roof Garden Classroom
Plant Palette 10No-mow Turf Grass
Fescue grasses from the genus Festuca:– slow growing– narrow leaved– shade tolerant
This low maintenance "No Mow" turf mix contains single season rye grass seeds for soil stability and quick growth of green lawn. The Fescue seeds are no different from those in our other "No Mow" turf mix. Both contain a specially designed blend of six low-growing Fine Fescue turf grasses, which will: Grow to form a dense turf, Thrive in full sun or partial shade, Require little if any watering or fertilizing, Biologically reduce weed growth, once established, Require limited mowing, usually only once or twice a year, Reduce your lawn maintenance dramatically.
~Prairie Nursery in Westfield, WI
Loren Abraham, AIA, LEED APabraham + associates architecture and planning
Taken from various Presentations to the City of St. PaulSt. Paul Fire Station Green Roof Garden Classroom
Plant Palette 11Native Vines for Minnesota
Lonicera brownii (Dropmore scarlet honeysuckle)partial sun, fertile well drained soil, very winter hardy and easy to grow, fast growing, needs support trellis right after planting, boasts scarlet-orange, tubular flowers from June to September, attracts hummingbirds
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia Creeper)partial sun, cold hardy, grows quickly, tough, requires little maintenance, small fruits it bears attract birds, can be invasive, prune to control size