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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