Archive for January 2009
Friday, January 16th, 2009
Learn about the process and the plants used to plant Swarthmore College and Scott Arboretum’s third green roof.
Building a Green Roof: Part 4: Planting an Extensive Green Roof
Learn about the process of planting of an extensive green roof as well as the plants ideal for the conditions found on a roof. Click here for more details.
Building a Green Roof: Part 5: Planting a Semi-Intensive Green Roof.
Learn about the process of planting a semi-intensive green roof as well as the variety of plants that can grow there. Check out this post to learn more.
See past green roof videos here.
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Building a Green Roof: Part 3: Planting an Extensive Green Roof:
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Epimedium sagittatum in the Terry Shane Teaching Garden
Winter has settled in at here the Scott Arboretum. While we haven’t gotten any decent snow yet, the temperatures are dropping and the ground is pretty well frozen. This time of year I find the structure and shape of some of the Arboretum’s oldest and biggest trees to be the most striking. Walking down Magill Walk around 5:00 pm while the sun is slowly going down is a wonderful way to appreciate the allee of Quercus bicolor, swamp white oaks, and their incredible size. But what about the lower growing plants this time…
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
This past fall the Scott Arboretum and Swarthmore College installed their third green roof on Kemp Hall. Check out the three videos below to learn more about the process of installing a green roof.
Building a Green Roof: Part 1: An Introduction
Learn about the many benefits as well as the different types of green roofs. To learn more, click here for an earlier post on green roofs.
Building a Green Roof: Part 2: Leak Detection
Learn about the process of ensuring you have a leak-free roof before installing a green roof. Click here to learn more about this process.
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Building a Green Roof: Part 1: An Introduction:
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Building a Green Roof: Part 3: Layers of a Green Roof:
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