Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

This book introduces a revolutionary new concept to gardeners. Planting on roofs and walls began in Europe, but it is now becoming popular all over the world. Green roofs and walls reduce pollution and run-off, and also help insulate and reduce the maintenance needs of buildings. Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls discusses the practical techniques required to make planting on roofs and walls a reality. It describes how roofs may be modified to bear the weight of vegetation, considers the different options for drainage layers and growing media, and lists the plants suitable for different climates and environments. This informative book will encourage gardeners everywhere to consider the enormous benefits to be gained from planting on their roofs and walls.

Media reviews of this book:

"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

"Nigel Dunnett, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield, England, and Noël 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

"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

"This well-researched and very complete text includes plant lists and site preparation, covers all parts of the country and includes information about planting walls, wires, columns, rooftop meadows, lawns, garden rooms."

—Joel M. Lerner, Washington Post, July 4, 2004

"For a very different kind of inspiration — landscape architecture of the most literal kind — don't miss Nigel Dunnett and Noël Kingsbury's Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls."

—New York Times, June 6, 2004

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