The roof now
Buffalo is not landscape painting computer architecture central . Aside from a magnanimous Olmsted car park system ( that ’s been stretch in smear ) , I find many WNY public landscape uninspired . Private garden are the thing here ; almost 500 of themwill be open to the public next hebdomad .
However , I do have a favorite local landscape painting designer . I’vewritten beforeaboutJoy Kuebler’sforward - think public and secret garden designs . We turn together on an unusual Show House exterior landscape in 2009 , but , before that , in 2007 , I visited Joy ’s house to see my first green ceiling . It was also the first to be installed in WNY .
The roof now
The 200 square metrical unit roof is over her office , a freestanding edifice behind her house . The October installment was quite an upshot , with local green industriousness professionals and students invited to witness it . A company from Pennsylvania ( Lichtenfels ) provide the complex complex body part , as no local greenhouse had the preparation to do this ( at that time ) . In fact , when Joy told mass she was putting in a green cap , many assumed that she was refer to the paint vividness . Goherefor a elaborate technological description of the installation . As my little image ( above ) shows ( go to her site for bigger ones ) the cap was very pretty the following summer , with Russian salvia , grasses , and various sedum .
This class , I returned for the first time to see the ten - class - honest-to-goodness structure . There have been change , to be certain , but many of the original plant have survived ( some seed themselves in the one thousand as well as on the roof ) . The Russian salvia and Karl Foerster grass did not hold out the first big drouth ( the roof is never watered ) in 2013 , and have been supercede by Achillea millefolium and Nipponese thenar sedge , but the carmine and yellow sedum are flourish . There are also grapeshot hyacinth in bounce ( wood anemone , which love moisture , did not fare well ) .
We discussed a couple aspects of the roof :
Weeds : These are really not much of a problem due to the juiceless conditions . The ceiling is take in once of yr of maple seedling ( you may see it ’s surround by trees ) , but many ground pot are just not put up .
Planting : Fall is the sound time , because of the wet , but the cud have to be flyspeck — about three inches — because of the grid complex body part .
Pitch : At 7:12 , the roof has the maximal pitch suggest .
Joy Kuebler ’s garden has some other coolheaded feature ; this water feature was design for the 2009 Show House projection .
There are now a few more green ceiling in Buffalo , though not most as many as many as I ’d like . You ’re far more likely to see solar jury these Clarence Day . Too risky , because this one demonstrates how beautiful and easy a residential green roof can be .
Joy Kuebler’s garden has some other cool features; this water feature was designed for the 2009 Show House project.
