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I have some Sedum plants and fancy trying to establish some on the tiled
roof of the garage.
In the past I have seen descriptions of this, but my web searching at the moment just seems to find sellers of Sedum matting and systems for a
complete green roof.
Is there more to it than inserting a plant under the edge of a tile,
perhaps with a bit of growing medium?
A website link would be very welcome, as well.
My search skills seem to have deserted me today.
TIA
Dave R
On 09/10/2025 15:44, David wrote:
I have some Sedum plants and fancy trying to establish some on the tiled
roof of the garage.
In the past I have seen descriptions of this, but my web searching at the
moment just seems to find sellers of Sedum matting and systems for a
complete green roof.
Is there more to it than inserting a plant under the edge of a tile,
perhaps with a bit of growing medium?
A website link would be very welcome, as well.
My search skills seem to have deserted me today.
TIA
Dave R
I've had success establishing sempervivium "gluing" hessian cloth to a concrete wall with kefir, ie live yoghurt. From an architect tip for establishing lichen, for masking, over modern replacement tiling that is
not a good colour match to existing historic tiling.
Then plantlets and a bit of soil over the hessian a few days later.
On 09/10/2025 20:26, N_Cook wrote:
On 09/10/2025 15:44, David wrote:Now I'm wondering if that method would work on a shady W facing wall to establish some ferns.
I have some Sedum plants and fancy trying to establish some on the tiled >>> roof of the garage.
In the past I have seen descriptions of this, but my web searching at the >>> moment just seems to find sellers of Sedum matting and systems for a
complete green roof.
Is there more to it than inserting a plant under the edge of a tile,
perhaps with a bit of growing medium?
A website link would be very welcome, as well.
My search skills seem to have deserted me today.
TIA
Dave R
I've had success establishing sempervivium "gluing" hessian cloth to a
concrete wall with kefir, ie live yoghurt. From an architect tip for
establishing lichen, for masking, over modern replacement tiling that is
not a good colour match to existing historic tiling.
Then plantlets and a bit of soil over the hessian a few days later.
On 09/10/2025 22:53, Bob Hobden wrote:
On 09/10/2025 20:26, N_Cook wrote:
On 09/10/2025 15:44, David wrote:Now I'm wondering if that method would work on a shady W facing wall to
I have some Sedum plants and fancy trying to establish some on the
tiled
roof of the garage.
In the past I have seen descriptions of this, but my web searching
at the
moment just seems to find sellers of Sedum matting and systems for a
complete green roof.
Is there more to it than inserting a plant under the edge of a tile,
perhaps with a bit of growing medium?
A website link would be very welcome, as well.
My search skills seem to have deserted me today.
TIA
Dave R
I've had success establishing sempervivium "gluing" hessian cloth to a
concrete wall with kefir, ie live yoghurt. From an architect tip for
establishing lichen, for masking, over modern replacement tiling that is >>> not a good colour match to existing historic tiling.
Then plantlets and a bit of soil over the hessian a few days later.
establish some ferns.
Interesting idea (although a north rather than shady west-facing wall
might be better). You'd probably have to go with something like /Pellaea rotundifolia/ in the south to avoid problems with frost, or /Asplenium scolopendrium/ anywhere in the UK.
I wonder if you could use tufa with ferns in the same way as this for alpines:
<https://www.jansalpines.com/tufa-wall/>. I'm not even sure how
available it is in the sort of quantities required, and it wouldn't be cheap.
<https://bathreclamation.co.uk/product/tufa-grotto-stone/>