Green Roof pictures: early summer 2005, filling and planting

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Here are images of our planting boxes. Treated 1x4 lumber, with the corners reinforced by 3" pieces of treated 2x2s. Fiberglass screen on the bottom, stapled in place, and then stapled on one side only until the boxes are filled. The structure with the reinforced corners is stable.




















Here are the boxes, ready to fill.


































Filling the boxes, first with coarse horticultural grade perlite. Filled to roughly half-depth.















And then with MetroMix 560. We patted the media in each box down and crowned the fill just a little. The screening was then stretched over the MetroMix, and stapled down all around.















Filled boxes, ready to plant.




















First planting. I've got Sedum kamschaticum on the outside; S. rupestre 'Angelina' down the middle, and S. spurium 'Dragon's Blood' on the inside. Oh, and there are three S. spurium 'John Creech' closest to the bottom (the smallest plants). All of these transplants were put in the beds around Memorial Day, from single-stem cuttings taken in April, 2005. Cuttings were treated with two sprays of Florel at ca. 250 ppm to induce branching.




















Subsequent posts will include this same shot, so that you can watch the plants grow and fill in.