Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

by NoelKingsbury (Author), NigelDunnett (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 15 May 2004

ISBN 10: 088192640X
ISBN 13: 9780881926408

Media Reviews
Don't be put off by the textbook style. It reads well and packs in a huge amount of information, making it well worth the price.
--Cleve West, Gardens Illustrated, January 2005
Discusses the very latest in both large scale commercial and small domestic projects. Reading this book is a wonderful requirement before starting construction.
--National Gardener, July 2004
Nigel Dunnett, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield, England, and Noel Kingsbury, a well-known British garden writer, have given this growing landscape sector its first reference with broad appeal.
--Ed Snodgrass, American Gardener, November/December 2004

For those who lack a yard and want to green a roof or wall, this resource offers important technical advice, along with horticultural recommendations for flat, sloped, and vertical surfaces. Dunnett and Kingsbury review examples of ornamental projects and stress the wide-ranging benefits of greening buildings, from recreational aspects to increased energy efficiency.


Gardening gurus will appreciate the thorough knowledge the writers share regarding various techniques and resources required to plant green roofs and living walls, discussing, for example, how soil depth and environmental stress will affect plant choice and maintenance.


Gardening gurus will appreciate the thorough knowledge the writers share regarding various techniques and resources required to plant green roofs and living walls, discussing, for example, how soil depth and environmental stress will affect plant choice and maintenance. --Chesapeake Home

For those who lack a yard and want to green a roof or wall, this resource offers important technical advice, along with horticultural recommendations for flat, sloped, and vertical surfaces. --Dwell

One of the few book-length discussions of this topic. --Publishers Weekly