The practice of cultivating food on the rooftop of buildings is sometimes referred to as rooftop farming.
Urban roof gardens.
Rooftop farming is usually done using green roof hydroponics aeroponics or air dyn.
Their featured garden design showed how we can all stylishly green up any urban space by using their amazing modular live product range which includes live walls live pictures and a live roof with a very clever watering mechanism.
Urban dwellers everywhere can enjoy fresh food flowers and keep flat roofs cooler too.
We are a leading design practice creating unique and iconic roof gardens.
Rooftop gardens allow for homegrown veggies and flower gardens in that often unused space.
And we have all the skills necessary to realise these projects in house.
Besides the decorative benefit roof plantings may provide food temperature control hydrological benefits architectural enhancement habitats or corridors for wildlife recreational opportunities and in large scale it may even have ecological benefits.
Tours last approximately one hour and are held as weather permits.
Gardening on a rooftop has a number of benefits including privacy no deer and good sun but there are several things to consider about urban gardening before you start planting.
Our projects range from private stylish city gardens to large commercial projects with formal or natural planting schemes.
At urban arts space with a guided tour of our current exhibition and then moves to the roof with lazarus building manager robert turrin for insights into the building s green initiatives and a tour of the garden.
A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building.
In fact rooftop gardens help reduce the heat island that urban areas experience.
Rooftop gardens can be an oasis in an otherwise built up urban setting.