Roof garden and Vertical garden
Sanjay D. Chavaradar2014-12-131
Roof garden
• A garden on the roof of a building
• Converts dead space to
dynamic space
• Helps to break the monotony
• Reduces negative impact of
buildings on local environment
• The practice of cultivating food on the rooftop of buildings - as rooftop farming
• Greenroof, hydroponics, aeroponics, or container gardens
Roof garden vs. Green roof
Incorporate recreation, entertaining and provide additional outdoor living space for the building's residents
Improving the insulation or improving the overall energy efficiency and reducing the cooling and heating costs within a building
Include planters, plants, dining and lounging furniture, pergolas and sheds, and automated irrigation and lighting system
Includes vegetation, plants, lawn
Roof gardenGreen roof
Roof Garden - Design
• Select highly puncture resistant membrane
• Provide positive drainage at membrane level
• Ensure proper system protection
• Incorporate drainage layer/root barrier
• Utilize Moisture Retention Mat (where applicable)
Benefits• Decorative benefit
• Roof plantings may provide food
• Temperature control
• Architectural enhancement
• Habitats or corridors for wildlife
• Recreational opportunities
• In large scale - ecological benefits
Before
After
Rockefeller Center – 1933
Enhances view from neighboring buildings
• Flowering annuals: Antirrhinum, stocks, dwarf sweet peas, pancy, dahlia, chrysanthemum, marigold, sweet alyssum, phlox, pinks and verbena
• Herbacious perennials: Pelargonium, michaelmas daisy, canna, Mirabilis jalapa, portulaca
• Shrubs: many of dwarf and medium size
• Trees: dwarf trees such as Plumeria sp. Callistemon lanceolatus, Gliricidia maculata,etc.,
• Creepers, Bulbous
Conifers
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Cupressus sp Juniperus sp Pinus sp
Small shrubs
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Lavandula sp Nandina domestica Punica nana
Small shrubs
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Lavandula sp Nandina domestica Punica nana
Medium large shrubs
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Callistemon citrinus
Elaeagnu sangustifolia Vitexagnus castus
Abelia grandiflora
Climbers
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Jasminum officinale Passiflora caerulea Solanum crispum
Herbaceous perennials
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Tithonia rotundifoliaPortulaca grandiflora
Verbena
Annuals
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Eschscholzia californica Amaranthus
Argyranthemum Ipomoea purpurea
Plants for hanging basket
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Bidens pilosa Brachycome
Daisy Felicia
Succulents
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Aeonium Aloe vera Sedum
Grasses
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Briza media Panicum virgatum
Pennisetum alopecuroides Pennisetum rubrum
Vertical garden• New concept of gardening
• Developed in Switzerland
• Vertical garden- any kind of construction and support structure for growing plants in an upwards-directed, vertical way
• Different designs and concepts available
• Design- available material, space and local preferences as well as on the creativity and imagination of the users
• Crops- food crops, (vegetables, fruits, herbs) and non-food crops (e.g. ornamental plants, medical plants)
• Advance the productivity levels of urban and sub-urban agricultural production sites
• Growing media- soil, compost, vermicomost, acrylic material as well as aquaponic and aeroponic solutions
• Maximizing the use of the resources while compromising the degradation of nutrients by using various planting medium
• Re-utilize greywater, reclaimed water or the fertilization with urine
• Use of space - sacks, bags, flowerpots and all kinds of available receptacles bins, cans, tins, bottels, tanks or boxes and even the unused places like on the roof of houses, balconies, on the top of walls or just hung up
Different Vertical Garden Designs• Cultivation arches, cultivation towers or
cultivation bags• Cultivation umbrellas, cultivation bangles or some
kind of cultivation tat have also been proven useful
Cultivation arch, cultivation tower
and cultivation bag
Cultivation umbrella, cultivation bangle and cultivation tat
• Cultivation ladders, pyramids or racks can be designed and constructed to grow plants vertically
Cultivation Ladder, Cagayan de Oro Cultivation ladder, cultivation pyramid, cultivation rack
Operation and Maintenance
• Regular water and nutrient supply
• Bottle irrigation or regular watering with watering cans
• Plant nutrients - synthetic fertilizers or by making use of compost, vermicompost and/or human urine or other organic fertilizer sources
Applicability• Excellent opportunity of growing food in areas
where space is limited
• Effective, simple and sustainable - enhancing food security for urban communities, slum dwellers and other communities
• Easily implemention- locally available material at low cost
• Offers livelihood opportunity
• Contributes to the local food security situation
Advantages and Disadvantages
• Low cost
• Minimal agricultural area required
• Contribution to household food security and alleviation of food shortages and poverty
• Reuse and recycling option for human excreta, biodegradable wastes and greywater
Advantages:
• Temperature insulation by growing plants on the walls of houses
• Simple and easy to understand
• Little space
• Shifted from place to place
• Used as a ornamental partition in the drawing-room
• Used in indoors
Disadvantages:
•Unpleasant odours may appear during the irrigation with greywater and urine
• A certain amount of labour required
• Regular watering or irrigation system has to be in place
•Single vertical garden – no mixed planting i.e combination of shade loving and sun loving plants
Type of plants• Shallow-rooted needs very little anchorage
• Sun-loving dwarf plants
• Trailing flower annuals - allysum, pancy, nasturtium etc.,
• Shade loving foliage or flowering plants – Semperflorens begonias, Rex or Ornamental leaved begonias, Africanviolets, Pittonia, Peperomia, Oxalis, Zebrrina pendula etc.,
Leaning Wood Herb Garden Rack Hanging Garden
Modular Cylinder Planters Free Standing Vertical Pallet Herb Garden
Chain-linked Vertical Garden Ladder Planter
Can Herb Garden Hanging Wooden Shelf Vertical Garden
Wall hanging Picture planter
Tiffin box on wooden wall
Fern and moss painting:
Pouched vertical garden system
The group planting:
Soda bottles as vertical garden planters:
Thank you
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